Hazard Mitigation Planning Risk Assessment
The risk assessment process provides the foundation for the rest of the mitigation planning process. The four basic components of the risk assessment are: 1) identify hazards; 2) profile hazard events; 3) inventory assets; and 4) estimate losses. This process measures the potential loss of life, personal injury, economic injury, and property damage resulting from natural hazards by assessing the vulnerability of people, buildings, and infrastructure to natural hazards. While many data sources and tools are available at various levels of government, academia, and the private sector, several options are listed below as a starting point for use in conducting a multi-hazard risk assessment.
Multi-Hazard
- HAZUS-MH
- Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Program
- Natural Hazards Gateway
- Coastal Services Center
- National Geophysical Data Center
- National Water and Climate Center
- National Climatic Data Center
- Natural Hazards Center
- Global Change Master Directory
Hurricane
Flood
- Flood Hazard Mapping
- Floodplain Management
- Community Rating System
- Emergency Management Institute Community Rating System Resource Center
- National Dam Safety Program
- National Inventory of Dams (NID)
- Association of State Dam Safety Officials
- Nationwide River Gage Site for Flooding Information
- National Flood Risk Management Program
Wildfire
- US Fire Administration
- Wildland Fire Assessment System
- National Interagency Fire Center
- National Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs Database
Earthquake
Tribal
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- HUD Office of Native American Programs
- EPA American Indian Tribal Portal
- EPA Tribal Programs
- Indian Health Service Area Offices and Facilities
Last Modified: Friday, 20-Mar-2009 15:50:07 EDT