Description
Frontline communities often experience disparate impacts from climate-driven hazards. Thresholds for authorized emergency response are high and hard to meet for smaller, localized shocks that can still harm and displace frontline communities. King County will explore models for integrating frontline communities into County-led emergency response operations and funding opportunities. These bodies of work would enable the County to deliver essential services and provide resource support to impacted communities that extend beyond the provision of routine County services. This work also includes assessing options to increase the County’s ability to offer recovery support through the provision of individual assistance to frontline communities disproportionately impacted by climate driven hazards for incidents that do not reach thresholds for traditional disaster declarations that enable state or federal reimbursement.