Natural-hazard prevention grant
Grants for Swedish municipalities to protect existing built areas from floods, landslides, rockfalls and erosion, including adaptation to climate change.
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The grant can cover up to 60% of eligible costs for permanent protective works and necessary investigations. Examples include flood embankments, fixed pumps, floodwater storage, routes for extreme rainfall, slope stabilisation and erosion protection.
Other funding can be combined with the grant without exceeding the measure’s total cost. For work involving several partners, the 60% ceiling is calculated on the whole protective measure, but the grant cannot exceed the municipality’s own expenditure. The municipality receives the payment and remains responsible for the application.
Up to half the grant can be paid in advance. At least 20% is retained until the final report is approved; other payments may follow interim reports. Lower final costs reduce the grant. Support for cost overruns is assessed individually against available funds and priorities.
Eligibility
Only municipalities can apply. The works must reduce natural-hazard risk to existing built areas and protect people, property, the environment or essential services, or adapt society to climate change. Nature-based solutions qualify if they provide durable protection. Works on someone else’s land can qualify where the municipality has legal authority under the applicable land and planning rules. Partners may commission or perform work, but the application must describe the cooperation.
- Eligible costs can include materials, labour, investigations and permit processes needed for the specific measure, plus restoring affected land or facilities to their original standard. Investigation funding is awarded with the physical measure, not as a standalone study grant.
- Protection of new or planned development, unrelated improvements, temporary measures such as movable flood barriers or pumps, maintenance and general studies that merely identify risks are excluded.
- Ordinary rain flooding, drainage covered by the water utility’s responsibilities and limited erosion generally do not qualify as natural disasters. Enlarged drains can form part of a wider package protecting against extreme rainfall; enlarging them solely for ordinary rain does not qualify. The scheme covers floods, landslides, rockfalls and erosion; other hazards are excluded.
- Investigate the site-specific risk and design and cost the measure before applying. Required permits must be granted before funding can be awarded. Selection considers durable protection, identified risk areas and priorities in relevant plans; funding is not automatic.
How to apply
- Állapot
- lezárult
- Megnyílik
- Lezárul
- A fordulóra vonatkozó korlátozások
- 2026 summer intake closed at 17:00 on September 7. Two recurring annual windows; ongoing-case reporting stays open year-round.
Submit through the agency’s e-service during an application period. The recurring windows run from the first non-holiday Monday in January to the first Monday in March, and from the first non-holiday Monday in June to the first Monday in September. The service closes at 17:00 on the final day. The 2026 summer window ended on September 7.
Prepare the risk assessment, location and impact maps, design drawings and calculations, budget and other financing, timetable, assessment comparing the costs with the expected benefits, and permit or exemption information. Explain what is protected, the protection level and remaining risk, climate assumptions, expected lifetime and future maintenance.
For flood works, document the event’s probability and whether calculations use today’s or a future climate, with before-and-after flood maps. For landslides, provide geotechnical reports assessing ground stability, documenting the hazard and showing how the proposed works reduce it. Rockfall investigations assess rock-slope stability and the likelihood and consequences of falling rocks. Erosion works need a geotechnical report explaining the erosion risk and proposed protection. The guidance describes the required technical attachments for each hazard.
Sign and send using an accepted electronic ID. An autosaved draft has not been submitted. Save the application and attachments in the municipality’s records. Identify potentially confidential information; contact the agency before sending security-classified material.
The measure need not start in the application year, but a timetable is required. Grant decisions cannot be appealed. Assessment starts after each window closes. An application not ready for a decision that year continues into the next year. Report project changes promptly. Submit any required interim reports and the final report through the separate service, which is open year-round. Final reporting includes municipal ledger extracts, invoices, completed-work drawings, inspection records and before-and-after photos; joint projects also need partner cost allocations and invoices. Failure to complete works or meet award conditions can lead to recovery of the grant.