Planning Division creates plans designed to prepare for, mitigate, respond to and recover from any emergency. Our plans include:

  1. This plan creates prioritized strategies to reduce the harm from future wildfires and wildfire smoke events to people, property, natural resources and infrastructure. Check the Wildfire Mitigation Planning page for more information.

  2. This is the core response planning framework document.

  3. Document

    The purpose of this plan is to describe the Multnomah County concept of operations for managing fuel during a minor, major or catastrophic incident or event that curtails or disrupts the fuel supply.

  4. Document

    This plan addresses Multnomah County’s response to care for everyone, everywhere in the county who needs shelter services following a catastrophic event that displaces a large number of people.

  5. Document

    This plan creates a framework for risk-based decision-making to reduce future loss of life and impacts to people, property, natural systems and the economy.

    • An update of this plan was completed in 2023. A survey to provide feedback for further plan updates can be found here.
Last reviewed February 25, 2026