Federal Emergency Management Agency · Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
Funds projects that reduce or eliminate flood damage risk to NFIP-insured properties. Priority for repetitive loss and severe repetitive loss properties.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $100K – $30M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (approximate)
- Audience
- Cities, towns, counties, and tribal governments
- Application window
- Annual; combined NOFO with BRIC.
- Typical prep time
- 10–18 weeks
- Statutory authority
- National Flood Insurance Act §1366
Catalog entry last verified 2026-05-24 · Verify on the agency page →
Eligibility at a glance
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Requires participation in National Flood Insurance Program. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
When you run a city dossier, Strategic Pursuit cross-checks the city's demographics, federal award history, disaster history, and CEJST burden categories against this program's eligibility and strategic-fit signals. You see an explicit eligibility / strategic / competitive grade — backed by source citations — instead of a generic "match" badge.
Planning purposes only. Award ranges, match percentages, and application windows on this page summarize the latest publicly available agency guidance and are approximate. Always verify the binding NOFO on the administering agency's page before applying.