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Existing County | Resiliency

RESILIENCY

Resiliency refers to the ability of a community to withstand, recover from, and adapt to disruptive events such as
natural disasters. In 2020, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the Disaster Relief and Resilience Act to
support disaster recovery efforts and to require local comprehensive plans to include a resilience element.
This resilience element considers the impacts of flooding, high water, and natural hazards on individuals,
communities, institutions, business, economic development, public infrastructure and facilities, and public health
safety and welfare. Also, this element includes an inventory of existing resiliency conditions, promotes resilient
planning, design, and development, and is coordinated with adjacent and relevant jurisdictions and agencies.

Hazards Identification and Extent

As shown in Table 1, Florence County was exposed to a variety of natural hazards including tornadoes, hurricanes,
windstorms, lightning, hail, drought, floods, winter storms, and extreme heat. Natural hazard events that have
occurred since the last Comprehensive Plan (2017) are also shown.

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