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Explore the National Risk Index dataset with the interactive map and data exploration tools. Discover your community's natural hazard risk, compare it to other communities, and create reports.
An interactive map provides the opportunity to find if you are in a a location and determine whether it is in a Community Disaster Resilience Zone. The map includes a drop-down menu for each state and the census tract designations within each county.
Jan 10, 2024 · This hazard map is a simplified 2% in 50-year probability of exceedance map for fixed VS30 760 m/s.
Pennsylvania promotes an “all hazards” approach to emergency management. It recognized that in all emergencies there is a commonality of required actions that includes, among others, warning, communications, designation of major routes of egress, and designation of shelter or mass care centers.
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- Tasks For Element 1
- Recognize Your Climate Risks
- Work with Others
- Consider Climate in The Context of Other Hazards
- Checklist
Maintain up-to-date data on climate hazards and community climate and health vulnerabilities, and use hazard vulnerability analyses to inform health services and infrastructure planning today and f...Develop a comprehensive understanding of the role of the hospital, long-term care, and ambulatory settings within the community during and after identified extreme weather events, and use this know...Identifying climate risks and community vulnerabilities is an important step in defining health care delivery system resilience. Health care organizations are encouraged to conduct a climate risk assessment so that they may better understand and catalog present and future extreme weather risks. Hospital and health systems that operate multiple camp...
Similarly, it may be important to meet with local and regional governing authorities or planning departments to understand preferred local and regional risk assessment methodologies and tools. Climate risks are highly variable across the United States; some are gradual (like sea level rise) while others are becoming more extreme today. The Climate ...
The need to embrace a multi-hazard approach is essential, especially for facilities located in areas that may be exposed to a variety of extreme weather hazards. While this checklist and resources focuses on climate-related hazards, hospitals must consider a broad range of additional risks, from bio-terrorism to pandemics. Multi-hazard assessments ...
The Element 1 Checklist assists health care organizations in assessing climate and health vulnerabilities, as well as assisting in clarifying the role of the facility or campus in the health care system and surrounding community. The Element 1 Checklist helps organizations define the climate and community contexts for developing enhanced resilience...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides an interactive map of hazardous waste cleanups across the United States. The "Cleanups in My Community" map provides a huge amount of information on thousands of cleanups of many kinds.
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The City of San Diego (San Diego) reviewed a set of jurisdictional-level hazard maps including detailed critical facility information and localized potential hazard exposure/loss estimates to help identify the top hazards threatening their jurisdiction.
