Recovery Action Plan – City of Panama City, Florida

Hurricane Michael was devastating to Panama City and its residents. In its wake, the October 2018 hurricane disrupted six out of the seven key community lifelines, including health and medical services; transportation; food, water, and sheltering; communications; energy; and safety and security. The destruction of these lifelines left the city vulnerable and posed a significant challenge to city-wide recovery and restoration.

One year later, though progress has been made, the City remains in need. This Recovery Action Plan is a roadmap for Panama City that sets forth an actionable resource to address those needs. This plan identifies recovery priorities in detail, identifies responsible parties to implement, provides supplemental resourcing and timelines to those priorities, and links them back to identified needs based on the direct and indirect impacts of Hurricane Michael on the community in 2018.

This document includes recommendations for organizing the pre-disaster recovery planning process and a county pre-disaster recovery plan template. A pre-disaster recovery plan provides communities with a framework for efficiently and equitably managing recovery following a disaster.