Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund Grant
Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund Grant supports Virginia communities with resilience planning, flood-risk studies, and community-scale mitigation projects to reduce flooding and strengthen resilience.
Funder: Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Due Dates: November 1, 2026 (Resilience Plans) | December 1, 2026 (Round 7 opens, draft schedule) | March 1, 2027 (Applications, draft schedule)
Funding Amounts: Round 7 draft: $200 million total; grants of $5,000–$10 million over 36–60 months, depending on category
Summary: Supports Virginia communities with planning, studies, and community-scale projects to reduce flood risk and strengthen resilience.
Key Information: Project-category applications require a DCR-approved Resilience Plan; Round 7 funding terms remain in draft.
Description
The Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund (CFPF) supports flood prevention, protection, and resilience across inland and coastal Virginia, including responses to flooding driven by climate change. Established in 2020, the fund is administered by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) in cooperation with the Virginia Resources Authority (VRA). It supports vulnerability assessments, local capacity and resilience planning, technical studies, and community-scale flood mitigation projects.
Priorities include nature-based solutions, recurrent flooding, low-income and underserved communities, and alignment with floodplain management standards and local, regional, and statewide resilience plans. Research-relevant activities include hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, floodplain mapping, precipitation and sea-level-rise data, infrastructure vulnerability assessments, flash-flood studies, stream-gauge monitoring, and land-use strategies. The Round 7 draft gives greater overall funding consideration to Capacity Building & Planning and Studies.
