SH18-050 FFY18 HSGP - Contract E19-111 KC Signed (2)

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ATTACHMENT Investment and, Regio, Approximately half ofWashington's 7.5 million population lives in the Seattle metropolitan area located along the Puget Sound. This area is the center of transportation, business, and industry and hthe fastest growing region |nthe state. Over three-fourths of the state's population lives in densely settled urbanized areas. Understanding Washington's population is critical in order tornitigate vulnerabilities, respond tuincidents, and effectively concentrate recovery efforts. Washington |ssubject to ten natural hazards and seven human -caused hazards. The TH|RA focuses mneight of those risks: earthquake, tsunami, flood, biological [communicable disease], wildfire, radiological, cyber incident, and terrorism. Planning, training, and exercise efforts are being restructured toencompass the entire spectrum uf' catastrophic incidents within this context. Washington saw few significant chun8eainthe20I7`CapabUtiemAomeeument. - Public Information and Warning, which had been consistently among the state's highest-rated capabilities since the beginning of core capa bi lity- based SPR reporting, no longer is present as a top-rated capability. - The lowest rated capabilities were Economic Recovery, Health and Social Services, Community Resilience, and Housing— all essential during o catastrophic incident, - The strongest capabilities lie in Response and lowest rated capabilities lie in Recovery. The 2017SPRremuhsrepeated the overarchingtheme uf prior' years: Stakeholders atevery level to sustain emergency response capabilities with, dwindling resources and are significantly challenged to prepare forcatastrophic disasters. Since the early 7OOUs,emergency management funding utthe state and local levels have reduced - significantly oausingon[noreaseddependanceonfndero|grenbtorneetnennoaarymmnrgoncymmnm8*mmnt requirements, As a result, many areas are in a sustainment mode when it comes to emergency ma nagement capability and capacity. While the communities may differ, emergency management priorities are similar across the state and most initiatives can batied back bmbuilding regionaluapabUhxtnreupnndundreoover,endbe|n"astateofraud|nemo"throu0h planning, training, equipping, urexercising, should u natural orhuman-caused catastrophic incident occur. As communicated in the 2017 THIRA, Capabilities Estimation, &SPR, gaps have been identified in the following core capabilities.