Understanding Your Risks: Identifying Hazards and Esitmating Losses (FEMA 386-2)
This guide (the second in the Mitigation How To series) will help States, Tribes, and communities to determine:
- which natural hazards could affect a jurisdiction;
- what areas of the jurisdiction are vulnerable to the hazards;
- what assets will be affected; and
- to what degree they will be affected, as measured through dollar losses.
The guide is multi-hazard in scope, addressing flood, earthquake, tsunami, tornado, coastal storm, landslide and wildfire. For communities dealing with multiple hazards, guidance is also provided on how to develop a composite loss estimate. Once the risk assessment is completed, States and communities will have the information necessary to develop a strategy and plan for reducing their losses.
The website allows download of individual chapters. The full document in 16.5 MB.
