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<br />The Miami-Dade Local Mitigation Strategy <br />June 2011 <br /> <br />Table 3 <br /> <br />Summary of Occurrence by Hazard Group: 1953-2009 <br /> <br />Hazard Group Occurrence Probability Vulnerabilities <br /> (Events Per year) <br /> Wind can impact all vulnerable cate- <br />Wind 409 7 gones <br /> All people and infrastructure, includ- <br /> ing buildings, and critical facilities in <br />Flooding 39 0.7 impacted areas <br />Drought 13 0.23 Agriculture <br />Excessive Tempera- Agriculture, elderly and indigent <br />tures 19 0.34 population <br /> People, agriculture, wildlife, and <br />Fire 14 0.25 structures within fire zone <br />Agricultural Hazards* Monthly Monthly Crops and landscape plants <br /> <br />Source: National Climatic Data Center <br /> <br />* Agricultural Hazards <br />Current data identifying previous occurrences of agricultural hazards is not complete. The <br />Department of Emergency Management is currently working with the Miami-Dade County <br />Extension to secure data for agricultural hazard occurrence. The current data available from <br />the Miami-Dade County Agriculture Extension indicates that this hazard occurs monthly; <br />however efforts are being undertaken to identify specific information on type of agriculture <br />hazard that occurs. <br /> <br />24 <br />