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Step 2a: Map risk consideration areas for hazards.
Utilize the best available information to identify high potential impact areas for each of your hazards. In some cases (i.e., tornadoes), you may not be able to target high-risk locations but in others (i.e., flooding or storm surge) you may have access to useful risk area data. Remember that the purpose of this step is to help you target priority areas for the remaining analyses.
Step 2b: Assign scores within risk consideration areas, where possible.
To help you further prioritize, in many cases it will be possible to establish some relative ranking within the risk areas. For example, flood risk areas for 10- or 50-year floods should be ranked higher than 100- or 500-year floods. Utilize the best available rankings, whenever possible.
| Natural Hazard Risk Consideration Area Scoring | |
| Flood Risk Areas | Risk Score |
| Flood V & VE Zones (Velocity Zone) | 5 |
| Flood A & AE Zones (100-Year Floodplain) | 4 |
| Flood X500 Zone (500-Year Floodplain) | 3 |
| Flood Prone Soils (Outside Flood Zones V, VE, A, AE, & X500) | 2 |
| Remainder of County | 1 |
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