The FEMA National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) State Assistance Grant Program is designed to increase and enhance the effective implementation of earthquake risk reduction at the local level and has two separate funding opportunities.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Both the Individual State Earthquake Assistance (ISEA) and Multi-State and National Earthquake Assistance (MSNEA) funding opportunities are designed to increase and enhance the effective implementation of earthquake risk reduction at the national, state, and local level.
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is a coordinating program for earthquake monitoring, research, implementation, education, and outreach activities developed and conducted by these four agencies:
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Science Foundation, and
- U.S. Geological Survey.
The ISEA grant program makes funds available to states and U.S. territories to increase and enhance the effective implementation of earthquake risk reduction at the state and local level. The MSNEA grant program makes funds available to nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education that possess the critical skills necessary to develop and implement regional (multi-state) and/or national earthquake risk mitigation activities.
Goals and Objectives
FEMA awards grants to eligible states and territories with high to very high seismic risk to fund one or more of the following allowable activities. The purpose is 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.
Priorities include:
- Support seismic mitigation planning.
- Prepare inventories and conduct seismic vulnerability evaluations and safety inspections of buildings, critical structures, and lifeline infrastructure.
- Update building codes, zoning codes, and ordinances to enhance seismic safety.
- Increase earthquake awareness and education.
- Participation in emergency management exercises that substantially benefit earthquake mitigation efforts.
- Promotion of earthquake insurance.
- National Earthquake Program Managers (NEPM) meeting participation and support.
- National Earthquake Program Managers (NEPM) meeting participation and support.
- Assistance to multi-state groups for the purpose of supporting any or all allowable activities under this funding opportunity.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,094,650
- Award Ceiling: $963,000
- Award Floor: $50,000.
Grant Period
October 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
This funding opportunity is available to states and territories classified as having a high or very high risk of earthquakes. FEMA determines and publishes this classification annually in the State Assistance Target Allocation Plan. The FY 2025 plan determination is based on the Seismic Design Category (SDC) per the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures FEMA P-2082, American Society of Civil Engineers and Structural Engineering Institute ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, as shown in the International Code Council (ICC) approved 2024 IBC SDC map and at-risk population in a state.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
