National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP): Individual State Earthquake Assistance (ISEA) (FEMA Region 9) - FY 2025
| Agency: | U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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| CFDA: | 97.153 |
| Federal FON: | DHS-25-MT-082-09-99 |
| Office: | Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Resilience Hazard Mitigation Directorate (HMD) Building Science Division Earthquake and Wind Sciences Branch (EWSB) |
| Multipart Grant: | No |
| Next Due: | 08/11/2025 (Application) |
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| Solicitation Date: | 07/25/2025 |
| Match Required: | Yes |
| Match Type: | Cash/In-Kind |
| Actual Funds: | Unspecified |
Summary:
The purpose of this program is to provide funding to states and U.S. territories classified as having a high or very high risk of earthquakes to support the establishment of earthquake hazards reduction programming and the implementation of earthquake safety, mitigation, and resilience activities at the state and local level. This program is intended to prioritize reducing the risks to life and property from future earthquakes in the United States through the establishment and maintenance of an effective earthquake hazards reduction program. The goals of this program are to:
- Advance the understanding of earthquake processes and their consequences
- Enhance existing, and develop new, information, tools, and practices for protecting the nation from earthquake consequences
- Promote the dissemination of knowledge and implementation of tools, practices, and policies that enhance strategies to withstand, respond to, and recover from earthquakes
- Learn from post-earthquake investigations and enhance the effectiveness of available information, tools, practices, and policies to improve earthquake resilience
Eligible activities include:
- Supporting seismic mitigation planning
- Preparing inventories and conducting seismic vulnerability evaluations and safety inspections of buildings, critical structures, and lifeline infrastructure
- Updating building codes, zoning codes, and ordinances to enhance seismic safety
- Increasing earthquake awareness and education
- Participating in emergency management exercises that substantially benefit earthquake mitigation efforts
- Promoting earthquake insurance
- National Earthquake Program Managers (NEPM) meeting participation and support
- Assistance to multistate groups for the purpose of supporting any or all eligible activities
Refer to pages 36-39 of the NOFA file for additional information regarding the eligible activities listed above.
Eligibility is limited to states and U.S. territories in FEMA Region 9 that have been classified as having a high or very high risk of earthquakes according to the funding agency's FY 2025 State Assistance Target Allocation Plan, which include the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada as well as the U.S. territory of Guam.
Eligibility Notes:
Eligible applicants are the following states and U.S. territories located in FEMA Region 9 that have been classified as having a high or very high risk of earthquakes according to the funding agency's FY 2025 State Assistance Target Allocation Plan:
- Arizona
- California
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Nevada
For the purposes of this program, states are classified as having a high or very high risk of earthquakes by meeting one of the following criteria:
- Have areas designated as Seismic Design Category D (SDC-D) or above on the 2024 International Building Code (IBC) Seismic Design Category (SDC) map and an at-risk population exceeding 50,000 based on the 2020 U.S. Census population
- Cover over 1,000 square miles of high seismic risk areas designated as SDC-D or above per the 2024 IBC SDC map
No more than one application will be accepted per applicant, as determined by the applicant's Universal Entity Identifier (UEI) number.
Eligible Applicants:
State GovernmentApplication Notes:
Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on August 11, 2025.
Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.
Applications must include:
- SF 424
- Certification regarding lobbying
- SF 424A
- SF 424B
- SF LLL
- Work plan narrative
- Master schedule/deliverable table
- Budget
- Evidence of the applicant’s ability to provide the required cost share (if applicable)
- Indirect cost rate agreement or proposal (if applicable)
- Outcomes report/logic model
The following are required in order to submit an application:
- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
- SAM (System for Award Management) registration
- SPOC (state Single Point of Contact) notification
Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam. Applicants in states participating in the SPOC program must contact the relevant SPOC listed in the SPOC file before applying.
Applications will be evaluated according to the threshold criteria, application criteria, financial integrity criteria, and supplemental financial integrity criteria detailed on pages 18-20 of the NOFA file.
Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.
| Match Required: | Yes |
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| Match Type: | Cash/In-Kind |
| Actual Funds: | Unspecified |
Match Notes:
In general, applicants must provide a 25 percent match via nonfederal cash and/or in-kind contributions. Refer to page 35 of the NOFA file for a list of required match amounts for each eligible state.
For applicants that are U.S. territories that are considered insular areas, matching funds are not required for this program. For the purposes of this program, insular areas include the U.S. territory of Guam.
Funding Notes:
An unspecified amount of funding is available to support up to five awards through this program. Each eligible state and U.S territory will be eligible for baseline funding as well as additional risk-based funding. The following total allocations are available to each eligible state and U.S. territory in FEMA Region 9:
- Arizona: $74,688
- California: $962,540
- Guam: $50,000
- Hawaii: $78,496
- Nevada: $94,380
For the funding agency's programs in general, funds will be provided on a reimbursement basis.
Awards are anticipated to be made on September 30, 2025.
The project period is anticipated to begin on October 1, 2025, and end on March 31, 2027. Extensions to the project period may be allowable.
Award recipients may retain up to 7 percent of the total award amount for management and administration (M&A) costs. No more than one organization partnering with the award recipient may, in turn, retain 7 percent of the total subaward amount for M&A costs.
Funds may not be used for:
- Real property and equipment procurement
- International travel
- Construction and renovation costs
- Retrofits
- Earth science-related costs
- Meeting the matching or cost sharing requirements for other federal grants and cooperative agreements
- Lobbying or other prohibited activities under Title 18, Section 1913 of the USC or Title 2, Section 200.450 of the CFR
- Prosecuting claims against the federal government or any other government entity
- Pre-award costs
- Covered telecommunications equipment or services, as detailed on pages 13-14 of the NOFA file
Contacts:
Program Staff
FEMA-NEHRP@fema.dhs.gov
Agency Address
Federal Emergency Management Agency
P.O. Box 10055
Hyattsville, MD 20782-8055
Contact Notes:
Questions should be directed to the program staff using the information provided, the appropriate program contact listed on pages 5-7 of the NOFA file, or the appropriate regional office of the funding agency listed online at www.fema.gov/about/regions.
Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.
The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.
File Notes:
The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The SPOC file contains information on the state Single Point of Contact program. Detailed guidelines for the funding agency’s application submission portal can be found online at www.fema.gov/grants/guidance-tools/fema-go. Additional program resources can be found online at www.fema.gov/emergency-managers.
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