Community Risk Assessment

Figure 10. Organizational Chart

Community Risk Assessment

A Community Risk Assessment provides an evaluation of risks and potential risks that are present within the service area. The importance of identifying risks through a Community Risk Assessment is evident when mitigation efforts are developed and implemented over time to improve the response to, recovery from, and resilience of disasters within a community. The following section includes an in-depth discussion of these risks for the purpose of risk reduction.

The Community Risk Assessment process includes land use and zoning classifications, along with specific target hazard information, to analyze and classify community fire protection risk by geography. This process incorporates Graphic Information Software (GIS) mapping and considers the impacts of population and population density, demographics, occupancy types, land use regulations, and other development features that impact the community.