Hampton Natural Infrastructure Resiliency Plan

In October 2024, the GIC completed a two-year project to map and evaluate the City of Hampton’s green infrastructure and to create strategies for making the city more resilient in the face of a changing climate. Located in the Hampton Roads area, Hampton sits in the second most threatened landscape in the country for sea-level rise and increasingly extreme weather events. This plan evaluates both current green infrastructure (trees, water, wetlands and other habitats) and marsh- and forest-buffer migration as sea level rises. This strategy was created in conjunction with the city’s Resilience Division.