Emergency Plans

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN (2019)(PDF, 1MB)

The City of Cupertino Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is an all-hazards document describing the City incident management organization, compliance with relevant legal statutes, other relevant guidelines, whole community engagement, continuity of government focus, and critical components of the incident management structure. The incident management system is a component-based system designed to be scaled up and components activated as necessary to reflect the incident/event’s escalation from routine incident(s) to emergency, disaster, or catastrophe affecting the City. This EOP is not intended to address specific emergency responses, scenarios, hazards, or threats. Functional and hazard specific annexes to this EOP will outline specific response activities for response organizations.

This Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) accomplishes the following: 

• Establishes a City incident management organization which will coordinate and support onscene responses including maintenance of situational awareness, facilitation of effective communication between operations centers at various levels of government, maintain continuity of government, and interaction with public information sources. 
• Establishes the overall operational concepts associated with the management of incidents, emergencies, crises, disasters, and catastrophes within the City. 
• Provides a flexible platform for planning and response to all hazards, incidents, events, and emergencies believed to be important to the City. It is applicable to a wide variety of anticipated incident events including earthquake, wildland fires, floods, and public health issues.

This EOP continues to support the City’s compliance with the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Incident Command System (ICS), the National Response Framework (NRF), and the National Preparedness Guidelines to include Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans. It facilitates multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional coordination during emergency operations, public information functions, and resource management.

This EOP serves as the legal and conceptual framework for incident management to be utilized by the City and its various departments. There are several separately published annexes that support this EOP. These supporting annexes further describe the operational or functional response to specific threats and hazards and the basic considerations, actions, and responsibilities of specific emergency response and management disciplines or functions. 

SANTA CLARA COUNTY LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN(PDF, 17MB) (2017)

Hazard mitigation is the use of long-term and short-term policies, programs, projects, and other activities to alleviate the death, injury, and property damage that can result from a disaster. Santa Clara County and a partnership of local governments within the county have developed a hazard mitigation plan to reduce risks from natural disasters in the Santa Clara County Operational Area—defined as the unincorporated county and incorporated jurisdictions within the geographical boundaries of the county. The plan complies with federal and state hazard mitigation planning requirements to establish eligibility for funding under Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant programs. 

In 2016, Santa Clara County, the Santa Clara County Fire Department, and all incorporated cities in Santa Clara County teamed together to prepare an updated multi-jurisdiction hazard mitigation plan tailored to the local needs and capabilities of the Santa Clara County Operational Area. The planning partnership developed a new plan from scratch, using lessons learned from the earlier ABAG planning efforts.

The 2016 plan differs from previous plans in the following ways:

• The plan is not a subset of a larger regional effort. It focuses on the geographic region of the Santa Clara County Operational Area and on hazards of concern specific to that area.
• The plan follows the planning guidance of FEMA’s Community Rating System so that it maximizes the planning benefit for the nine communities in the Operational Area participating in that program.
• Newly available data and tools provide for a more detailed and accurate risk assessment.
• The risk assessment has been formatted to provide information on risk and vulnerability that will allow a measurement of cost-effectiveness, as required under FEMA mitigation grant programs.
• The update gave the planning partners an opportunity to engage local citizens and gauge their perception of risk and support for risk reduction through mitigation. 

LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN(PDF, 2MB) - City of Cupertino Annex (2017)

For the Santa Clara Operational Area Hazard Mitigation Plan, a Planning Partnership was formed to leverage resources and to meet requirements of the federal Disaster Mitigation Act (DMA) for as many eligible local governments as possible. As a planning partner, the City of Cupertino prepared a jurisdiction-specific annex to the countywide Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.

EVACUATION PLANS (2023)

COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN(PDF, 4MB) (2016)

Cupertino is listed as a Community at Risk from wildfires on the Federal and/or California Fire Alliance list of Communities at Risk in Santa Clara County. Wildfires occur in the vicinity of Cupertino and present a danger to people and properties within the city. Mitigations can reduce the risk of injury and damage. Some mitigations are solely the responsibility of property owners, other mitigations require neighborhood level action, and some require city government action. 

Cupertino is a city on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley and extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. According to the 2010 Census the population was 58,302. Cupertino is made up of numerous subdivisions, most of them developed since the 1960s. The planning area focuses primarily on the unincorporated portions of the City.

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