Community Flood Preparedness Fund
Grants and Loans

Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund Grant

The Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund (CFPF) was established in the Code of Virginia pursuant to Chapter 13, Title 10.1, Article 4, Section 10.1-603.24 and Section 10.1-603-25 and the provisions of § 10.1-1330. Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Fund, which was passed during the 2020 session of the General Assembly.

The fund was established to provide support for regions and localities across Virginia to reduce the impacts of flooding, including flooding driven by climate change. The fund will prioritize projects that are in concert with local, state and federal floodplain management standards, local resilience plans and the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan. The fund will empower communities to complete vulnerability assessments, and develop action-oriented approaches to bolster flood preparedness and increase resilience.

CFPF Grant Round 6

Communities across the commonwealth are invited to apply for $50 million in grants and $35 million in loans to support flood mitigation projects that enhance community resilience and reduce the impact of flooding. A further $25 million in grants are available for Coastal Storm Risk Management and Flood Risk Management projects that have received construction authorization from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025.

Download the manual here.

Summary of Community Flood Preparedness Fund Round 6 Updates

In response to stakeholder feedback and statutory changes, the Department has made the following updates to the Round 6 Funding Manual, as compared to the Round 5 manual:

The addition of Tribes as eligible applicants (reflects legislative change);
The inclusion of the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth as one of the entities establishing the grant manual and making awards (reflects legislative change);
The definition of “Community-scale project” has been clarified, and updated to include projects that provide flood mitigation to critical facilities;
The inclusion of language promoting consistency and collaboration between overlapping local governments when developing resilience plans, and requirements that resilience plans are consistent with hazard mitigation plans and other similar plans;
Language specifying that the Advisory Review Committee will consider the progress and management of active CFPF grants by an applicant when making recommendations;
Requiring applicants who are awarded grants in the Coastal region to register their projects/initiatives in the DCR Coastal Resilience Web Explorer prior to receiving reimbursements;
Applicants seeking funding for project grants or loans in Round 6 must have an approved resilience plan before the beginning of the Round (does not apply to applications for capacity building or study grants);
Applicants that are not in a low-income geographic area must provide 50% match for staff grants;
Property acquisitions will only be considered if they provide community-scale benefits or are a part of an acquisition plan that provides community-scale benefits;
Projects proposing to protect or provide flood mitigation benefits either to or using public recreation areas (parks/beaches/etc) will also be evaluated on their benefits to areas outside of the public access area;
A prohibition on studies that would duplicate existing data;
A new funding category has been to support US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Storm Risk Management Projects and Flood Risk Management Projects. An additional $25,000,000 has been added to the round to fund this new category;
Language has been added emphasizing that applications must be submitted for a discrete activity or project;
Successful applicants may now receive up to 25% or $250,000, whichever is less, to support pre-award and startup costs;
The Manual clarifies that Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund (RVRF) loans are available as project match independent of any other RVRF offering;
Various updates to budget submission requirements; and
Other minor changes, including technical and clarifying changes.

Download the summary of changes.

WebGrants Portal Info

Grant Round 6 manual
WebGrants Portal
Video - Applying for CFPF using the DCR grants management portal (YouTube)
A tutorial on how to use WebGrants, DCR's grants management portal, to complete an application for funding from the Community Flood Preparedness Fund.
Registering with the WebGrants system
Applicant instructions

Grant Conditions

The following conditions shall apply to the use of moneys allocated from the fund:

Localities shall use moneys in the fund primarily for the purpose of implementing flood prevention and protection projects and studies in areas that are subject to recurrent flooding as confirmed by a locality-certified floodplain manager.
Moneys in the fund may be used to mitigate future flood damage and to assist inland and coastal communities across the commonwealth that are subject to recurrent or repetitive flooding.
No less than 25% of the moneys disbursed from the fund each year shall be used for projects in low-income geographic areas.
Priority shall be given to projects that implement community-scale hazard mitigation activities that use nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk.

Resources

Previous Grant Rounds

Grant Round 1

The application period is closed. See the list of awards.

Grant Round 2

The application period is closed. See the list of awards.

Grant Round 3

The application period is closed. See the list of awards

Grant Round 3 Supplemental Awards. See the list of award

Grant Round 4

The application period is closed. See the list of awards.

Grant Round 5

The application period is closed. Round 5 winners were announced July 1, 2025. See the list of awards.

See the minutes of the May 23 meeting of the Community Flood Preparedness Fund Advisory Review Committee.

Applications in the "project" category of the Community Flood Preparedness Fund require a DCR-approved Resilience Plan. See list of localities with approved resilience plans below. Links will redirect to resilience plans posted on locality websites.
Localities with approved resilience plans.

General Application Inquiries: For any questions regarding the application process, please contact the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Floodplain Management at (804) 371-6095 or via email at cfpf@dcr.virginia.gov.