Updated 04/07
Project Impact
Project Impact was an initiative developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to challenge the country to undertake actions that protect families, businesses and communities by reducing the effects of natural disasters. This initiative includes a national awareness campaign, the selection of pilot communities that demonstrate the benefits of hazard mitigation through a partnership approach, and an outreach effort to businesses and communities to become disaster resistant. FEMA press release, 2-27-98
The Project Impact program ended in 2002 and was replaced with the Predisaster Mitigation Program.
Washington participants were:
- Clark County
- King and Pierce Counties
- Eastside Cities (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah)
- Kitsap County
- City of Seattle
- Walla Walla County
- The Impact of Project Impact on the Nisqually Earthquake, Natural Hazards Observer, May 2001