The State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP) is a guide to how the State of Arizona conducts all hazards response. It is built upon National Response Framework as a scalable, flexible, and adaptable coordinating structures to align key roles and responsibilities, linking all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. It is intended to capture specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters.

The Plan identifies hazard mitigation actions and projects that have the potential to reduce the loss of life and property, human suffering, economic disruption, and disaster assistance costs resulting from natural and human-caused disasters in Arizona. This Plan also meets requirements of a Standard State Mitigation Plan for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).