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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requires all state, local, and tribal governments to have Hazard Mitigations Plans to be eligible for federal disaster mitigation grants. As part of these plans, communities of all sizes and across all levels of socioeconomic status should be incorporating relevant, timely, accessible historical and projected climate-related hazard information, but few are doing so. This is due not only to issues with data availability and access, but also a lack of ability or capacity to integrate climate information into these plans or other comparable planning documents. The lack of climate- informed hazard information in the vast majority of plans undermines the ability of communities to adequately communicate their potential future vulnerabilities to their own residents and to state and federal authorities responsible for allocating resources for mitigation activities. Since 2018, MARISA has partnered with the Urban Sustainability Directors’ Network (USDN), and more recently, CISA and GLISA to co-develop a portal and visualization tool to (1) help USDN members and other communities integrate relevant historical data and climate projections into their FEMA Hazard Mitigation plans, and (2) produce interpretive narratives to accompany the data visualizations.