Overview

The Municipal Ice Storm Assistance (MISA) program provides one-time support to eligible municipalities for incremental costs related to the March 2025 ice storm.

The deadline to apply to MISA is October 31st, 2025.

Municipalities in the impacted area will receive an Expression of Interest survey regarding their incremental costs and intent to apply to the program. The completed survey must be submitted by July 28, 2025.

If your municipality has not received the survey and has incremental costs related to the ice storm, contact: municipaldisasterassistance@ontario.ca

Impacted area

The area of impact is highlighted on the ice storm map.

Eligibility

To qualify for the MISA program, your municipality must:

  • have incremental costs directly linked to the 2025 ice storm (over and above regular budgets)
  • pass a council resolution requesting assistance
  • submit the Expression of Interest survey by July 28, 2025
  • submit a completed application package by October 31, 2025

Eligible costs

Your municipality may be eligible for support for:

  • operating costs that go above regular budgets and are needed to protect public health, safety or access to essential services
  • capital costs to repair public infrastructure or property

Costs are not eligible if:

  • they are covered by insurance
  • they would have been incurred regardless of the ice storm

Please refer to the program guidelines for a detailed list of eligible and ineligible costs.

Assistance under the MISA program

Applications will be reviewed by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and are subject to final funding approval by the minister.

If approved, the province and municipality will enter into a transfer payment agreement. All payments under the agreement will be based on the eligible costs incurred by the municipality because of the 2025 ice storm.

The program uses a sliding scale cost-sharing model:

  • for eligible costs up to 3% of your municipality’s own-purpose taxation (as reported in SLC 10 0299 01 of the municipality’s latest Financial Information Return), the province will reimburse 75% and the municipality will cover 25%
  • for eligible costs above 3% of your municipality’s own-purpose taxation, the province will reimburse 95% and the municipality will cover 5%

Program guidelines

Please review the program guidelines to determine eligibility under the program, what documentation and evidence are necessary to support an application, how to request assistance, and how to submit an application.

Submit your application

Municipalities wishing to apply for assistance under MISA should:

  1. Read the program guidelines.
  2. Contact program staff at municipaldisasterassistance@ontario.ca to receive the application package