Pima County adopts 2025 Floodplain Management Plan, sets action agenda for next five years

Pima County supervisors voted unanimously March 31 to approve a new county floodplain management plan intended to guide flood-risk reduction and stormwater planning for 2025–2030.

The plan — described to the board as a near-1,000-page document and an update of the county’s 2020 plan — compiles hazard assessments, outreach findings and a five‑year action plan that county staff and community stakeholders developed over the last year. The Board of Supervisors approved the plan 5–0.

County officials said the update is designed as a programmatic roadmap rather than immediate rulemaking. Greg Sachs, the county’s environmental planner, told the board the plan “follows FEMA’s guidance on the National Flood Insurance Program” and that it supports Pima County’s high Community Rating System standing; “Pima County is in the top 0.3 in The United States. So anyone buying flood insurance in the county gets a 40% discount,” he said.

Why it matters: the plan is intended to coordinate technical work, capital projects and outreach across…