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Step 3a: Identify critical facilities categories.
This analysis focuses on determining the vulnerability of key individual facilities or resources within the community. Since it is not usually feasible to conduct such an analysis for every structure in a community, you should focus on identifying the categories of structures that you would consider "critical facilities" for purposes of conducting individual facility assessments.
The
critical facility categories may include the following:
- Shelters
- Schools
- Hospitals and Nursing Homes
- Fire and Rescue
- Police
- Utilities
- Communications
- Transportation
- Government
Step 3b: Complete a critical facilities inventory.
Next, establish a critical facilities database by collecting some general information. The type and amount of information collected depends on your intended use of the database, but at a minimum should contain information identifying facility types and locations.The data collected for the database may include:
- Facility type
- Facility name
- Street address
- City
- State
- Zip
- Owner/operator
- Contact name
- Contact title
- Contact telephone
- 24-hour telephone
- Township
- Fire district
Step 3c: Identify intersections of critical facilities with high-risk areas.
To help prioritize potential hazard mitigation for critical facilities, you should identify risk area scores for each of the critical facilities. Overlay the critical facilities with the hazard risk consideration areas.
Step 3d: Conduct vulnerability assessment on all critical facilities.
For each critical facility, conduct an individual assessment addressing the location of the facility relative to the hazard risk areas and the potential vulnerability of the facility to the impacts of each hazard. The facility assessment should be designed with questions that address the elements of vulnerability you are most concerned about, and the results should be weighted accordingly (i.e., structural vulnerability vs. operational vulnerability). If you are focusing on minimizing repetitive losses, you may wish to investigate damage history. |
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