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2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Kittitas County, Washington <br /> <br /> <br />Chapter 5: Mitigation Strategy 228 <br />• Winter weather hazards were profiled individually. All winter weather hazards were profiled under <br />severe weather in the previous Plan. <br />• There were some notable changes to the hazard risk ranking. <br />o The new methodology includes 14 factors (versus four (4) in the 2019 update) which align <br />with FEMA’s risk assessment criteria. Refer to Section 4.3 for further details on the 2025 <br />risk assessment methodology. <br />o Severe weather hazards were ranked individually and not as a whole category. <br />Thunderstorms, hail, tornado, strong winds/damaging winds, heat wave/extreme heat, <br />and cold wave/extreme cold were ranked individually even though these are grouped <br />under severe weather in the hazard profile. <br />o Wildfire and wildfire smoke were ranked individually even though wildfire smoke is <br />grouped under wildfire in the hazard profile. <br />o Technological hazards and human-caused hazards were included in the hazard ranking. <br />o In the 2025 ranking, wildfire is ranked as a high risk (ranked medium in the previous <br />ranking) and drought is ranked medium (ranked low in the previous ranking). <br />o Severe weather was ranked high in the previous Plan; however, winter weather was <br />profiled under severe weather which was the main reason severe weather was ranked <br />high. In the 2025 ranking, winter weather is ranked high. <br />