1. FLHUG Meeting at CFGIS -- 09/21/09
AGENDA
FEMA Region 4 Coastal Flood Risk Assessment
Latest news on versions of HAZUS and CDMS
CDMS refresher --
HAZUS-MH is a multi-hazard risk assessment and loss estimation software program developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The name: HAZUS stands for Hazards US
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and MH stands for Multi-Hazard.
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2. HAZUS-MH is a multi-hazard risk assessment and loss estimation software program developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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The name: HAZUS stands for Hazards US
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and MH stands for Multi-Hazard. 2

3. What is HAZUS-MH?
Tool that can identify hazard related risks, calculate potential losses to life and property, and help define effective ways to reduce losses
Available from FEMA free of charge
Project team:
Sponsored by FEMA
Management by the National Institute of Building Sciences
Technical oversight by Committees for earthquake, wind, flood and software
Technical development and testing by consultants
User involvement throughout development

4. What Is HAZUS-MH HAZUS-MH is a planning tool that estimates
damage and losses from natural hazards
It is a planning tool, NOT an engineering tool
Engineering-level data (i.e. Hydrology & Hydraulic studies for Flood modeling) can be input to increase accuracy, but results still produce planning-level estimations
It estimates physical damage & economic losses
It assesses population needs related to emergency management
It allows users to compare results from different study case scenarios, including those that result from specific mitigation actions (useful for benefits analysis) 4

5. Riverine and Coastal Floods
Supported Hazards
Hurricane Winds
Riverine and Coastal Floods
Earthquakes

7. Hurricane Ivan Ground-Truthing

9. Hurricane Charley Ground-Truthing

10. Maximum sustained wind speeds map made using HAZUS for Hurricane Ono Florida Catastrophic Planning project.

11. Annual Hurricane Exercises
An example map maps using templates introduced during the HAZUS-MH for Disaster Operations course sponsored by FEMA, the Florida Division of Emergency Management, and the Florida HAZUS User Group at the 2008 Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference.

12. Florida HAZUS Users Group
Promotes the use of HAZUS across the state
Builds on Florida’s regional approach to risk assessment and planning.
Effectively uses a committee structure to identify, develop and implement projects.
Florida HUG will continue to play a pivotal role in HAZUS training and data management in the state of Florida.

13. Florida HAZUS User Group
flhug.hazus.org
floridadisaster.org/gis
flhazusdata.com
The Florida Division of Emergency Management regularly uses HAZUS in our operations, exercises, and planning. We are also very proud to be a member of the Florida HAZUS user group and depend heavily upon this group to forge relationships supporting data development, training, and use of HAZUS across the state. The Florida Division and the user group are looking forward to rolling out a Comprehensive Data Management Portal to support data development for HAZUS. In partnership with FEMA, this second-of-its-kind web portal gives HAZUS users in Florida the opportunity to build better data for use with HAZUS.

14. What is CDMS?
CDMS is a tool developed by FEMA to support integration of locally developed inventory data into the HAZUS-MH loss estimation process.
Primary functions
Support transfer of data into and out of the major master statewide databases
Provide validation of new data into the system
Allow users to query and print information within the system

15. HAZUS-MH Statewide Databases Field mapping Validation
What is CDMS?
HAZUS-MH Statewide Databases
Field mapping Validation
Shapefiles
Excel Worksheets MS Access Database Delimited Text Geodatabases
Bndrygbs.mdb
EF.mdb
CDMS Repository
flAG.mdb
flVeh.mdb
Hplf.mdb
Msh.mdb
Trn.mdb
Util.mdb

18. Data management
Spring 2009
Florida Division of Emergency Management has numerous, ongoing data development projects
EMPG Scope of Work Requirements
Regional Evacuation Studies
HSIP State Layers
Portal is “read-only” for all others as FDEM works on statewide essential facilities layers

19. Essential facilities updated Hazardous Materials Sites (FDEM)
Data management
Spring 2009
Essential facilities updated
Fire Stations, Police Stations, Schools, Medical, & EOC
Hazardous Materials Sites (FDEM)
Wastewater Facilities (FDEP)
Potable Water Facilities (FDEP)

20. Opening up the portal
Summer 2009
12 counties given “Power” user access
Refresher webinar scheduled for 08/14/09

21. What’s the change
EOC’s to 96
Fire Stations to 2,000
Medical Care to 289
Police Stations to 1,019
Schools --- 4,731 to 4,137
Hazardous Materials --- 1,706 to 11,074
Potable Water to 2,567
Wastewater to 2,089

22. Future plans
FDEM working on leveraging demographics and vehicles from statewide regional evacuation update; and aggregated building and exposure data from statewide parcels
Heavy use of HAZUS analyses with State Hazard Mitigation Plan update
Tie participation to EMPG funding???

23. Florida HAZUS User Group
flhug.hazus.org
floridadisaster.org/gis
flhazusdata.com
The Florida Division of Emergency Management regularly uses HAZUS in our operations, exercises, and planning. We are also very proud to be a member of the Florida HAZUS user group and depend heavily upon this group to forge relationships supporting data development, training, and use of HAZUS across the state. The Florida Division and the user group are looking forward to rolling out a Comprehensive Data Management Portal to support data development for HAZUS. In partnership with FEMA, this second-of-its-kind web portal gives HAZUS users in Florida the opportunity to build better data for use with HAZUS.

24. Riverine and Coastal Floods
Supported Hazards
Hurricane Winds
Riverine and Coastal Floods
Earthquakes

25. Why use SLOSH?
Use the existing partnership with NOAA…FEMA doesn’t have surge modeling expertise
SLOSH is simplified and independently valid to within 20% of observed surge heights
Using SLOSH MOMs, the US is covered!
FEMA already pays for SLOSH basin updates, why pay for separate model development?
Thousands of hurricane scenarios already run, just need to do damage estimates
This one seems self-evident to me, but, the truth is FEMA doesn’t have surge modeling expertise anywhere similar to NOAA or the Hurricane Center and we, FEMA, should be trying to work more closely with the experts in surge modeling. We, FEMA, are the experts in loss estimation, and we want to piggyback our HAZUS model on the scientific expertise of NOAA. This gives us an independently valid estimate of storm surge to work with when we generate depth grids for use in HAZUS. I think this is a truly significant slide, and given the response of the emergency management community at the local and state level during the Florida presentation, I think we may be solving a huge problem with this approach.
The idea for future validations of HAZUS uses the approach of categorically modeling surges using the SLOSH MOMs, then validating those HAZUS loss estimations as storms landfall in the future and damage estimation data is collected. What a great idea!

26. SLOSH storm categories (MOM)
Why use SLOSH?
HES Zones
Cat 1…
HAZUS $ Loss TBD
Cat 2…
Cat 3…
Cat 4…
Cat 5…
Surge Zones for
Pass Christian, MS
from lidar-derived
SLOSH storm categories (MOM)

27. FEMA Region 4 Coastal Flood Loss Atlas

28. Florida HAZUS User Group
flhug.hazus.org
floridadisaster.org/gis
flhazusdata.com
The Florida Division of Emergency Management regularly uses HAZUS in our operations, exercises, and planning. We are also very proud to be a member of the Florida HAZUS user group and depend heavily upon this group to forge relationships supporting data development, training, and use of HAZUS across the state. The Florida Division and the user group are looking forward to rolling out a Comprehensive Data Management Portal to support data development for HAZUS. In partnership with FEMA, this second-of-its-kind web portal gives HAZUS users in Florida the opportunity to build better data for use with HAZUS.