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Spring 2010 GIS in Emergency Mngt
1. GIS in Emergency
Management
Roxanne Gray
Bob Busch
Wisconsin Emergency Management
June 3, 2010
2. GIS Valuable Tool in EM
Identify risk Prepare for
Identify vulnerability Respond to
to that risk Recovery from
Assess the extent of Mitigate (before,
the risk during or after an
Communicate the risk event)
Better land use
decisions
4. HAZUS (HAZards US – Multi-Hazard)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
disaster loss estimation and mitigation planning
tool
Geographic Information System (GIS) based
Spatial Analysis tool required
Expensive to purchase and to maintain the licenses
Census Data
Methodology for Floods, Hurricanes, and
Earthquakes
Physical damage
Economic Loss
Social Impacts
5. HAZUS - Flood
Studies of discharge frequencies, including
analysis of discharges from specific streams and
the exposure to buildings and population from
the resultant flooding.
Allows users to evaluate the consequences of
specific actions, such as the introduction of flow
regulation devices, acquisition or elevation of
flood-prone properties, and other mitigation
measures.
6. Wisconsin HAZUS-MH Risk Assessment
FFY 07 Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant
Coordination with Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility
(LICGF) at UW – Madison and The Polis Center at Indiana University –
Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
State wide riverine runs for all 72 counties and coastal runs for counties
along Lake Superior and Lake Michigan
Uses Digital Elevation Maps (DEM)
DFIRMs where available
Better the data, better the ending product
Land Information
& Computer Graphics Facility
7. Risk Assessment Cont’d
Results were a 100-year flood
analysis for each county
Data estimates are derived
from census data
incorporated into HAZUS
Total Building
Estimated Total Total Damaged Total Economic Loss X Building Loss X
General Occupancy Exposure X
Buildings Buildings 1000 1000
1000
Agricultural 9 0 $222,488 $10,306 $2,506
Commercial 1,778 34 $6,950,225 $158,492 $38,671
Education 34 0 $757,459 $7,856 $1,665
Government 157 3 $470,664 $8,638 $932
Industrial 269 0 $2,024,873 $73,478 $19,549
Religious/Non-Profit 74 0 $627,954 $13,646 $1,851
Residential 117,741 551 $26,888,748 $188,061 $115,171
Total 120,062 588 $37,942,411 $460,477 $180,345
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9. Mitigation Planning
Statewide flood hazard risk
assessment for State Hazard
Mitigation Plan
Flood analysis for each
county
Assist in the development of
or updating the counties’ all
hazard mitigation plans
13. GIS in Radiological Emergency
Preparedness
Currently, only FEMA Region 5 has a GIS
person devoted to Radiological Emergency
Preparedness.
14. GIS in Radiological Emergency
Preparedness
Only in the last 3 years has Wisconsin
Emergency Management considered GIS
as part of the skill set for employees.
4 staff with GIS skills
15. Uses of GIS in Radiological Emergency
Management
Communicate Risk
Develop Plans to mitigate risk
Recovery – Post Event
16. Communicating Risk
GIS can be a powerful tool in the process
of conveying risk.
Community Outreach
Planning Zones
Calendar
17. GIS in Risk Assessment and Planning
Provide the public with maps that show:
Areas that may be affected around the nuclear plant.
Roads
Evacuation Routes
A calendar is sent to each resident within 10 miles
of the nuclear power plant.
State and County Plans
Reception Centers
Siren Locations
Traffic Control Access Points
18. Use of GIS in Exercises
To provide a visual aid in conveying
technical data about a release.
Exercise Use Only
19. Parcels
Ingestion workshop
Ingestion Planning Zone extends 50 miles from
the nuclear plant.
Discussions included using land parcels as a
means to track individuals who did not evaluate.
20. Response and Recovery
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Rapid local detection and response Short Recovery Time
start of Intermediate detection and response Moderate Recovery Time
incident
Slow detection and response
Long Recovery Time
21. Areas Receiving Less Attention
Recovery
Why… There has not been an accident since
Three Mile Island that has caused an
evacuation.
Lessons could be taken from other
incidents that require recovery, such as
flooding.
