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Training
HAZUS training opportunities include courses at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, regional training courses, and on-line courses.
HAZUS Training at EMI
- Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS-MH
- Course Number: E317
- Dates: September 8-11, 2008
- 22 spaces available
- Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS MH Users
- Course Number: E190
- Dates: October 20-23, 2008
- Basic HAZUS-MH
- Course Number E313
- Dates: December 1-4, 2008
- Advanced HAZUS-MH for Flood
- Course Number E172
- Dates: January 12-15, 2009
- Advanced HAZUS-MH for Hurricane
- Course Number E170
- Dates: February 2-5, 2009
- Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS-MH Users
- Course Number E190
- Dates: February 23-26, 2009
- Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS-MH
- Course Number E317
- Dates: March 16-19, 2009
- Basic HAZUS-MH
- Course Number E313
- Dates: April 6-9, 2009
- Application of HAZUS-MH for Disaster Operations
- Course E179
- Dates: April 20-23, 2009
- Advanced HAZUS-MH for Earthquake
- Course E174
- Dates: April 27-30, 2009
- Basic HAZUS-MH
- Course Number E313
- Dates: July 13-19, 2009
- Advanced HAZUS-MH for Flood
- Course E172
- Dates: July 27-30, 2009
- HAZUS-MH/DMA 2000 Risk Assessment
- Course E296
- Dates: August 3-6, 2009
- Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS-MH
- Course E317
- Dates: September 14-17, 2009
Who Should I Contact to Enroll in HAZUS Training Courses?
To enroll, download the Admission Application or contact Ray Chevalier at (301) 447-1187 or Philip Moore at (301) 447-1248.
For further information on registration, please visit FEMA's Emergency Management Institute's Website. For information about Regional training opportunities and events, go the HAZUS Regional Training page or contact Vincent Brown by e-mail at vincent.brown@dhs.gov.
Download the HAZUS-MH Training Handout
Regional Training
- Comprehensive Data Management System Course
- August 19-21, 2008
- Eisenhower Training Center
- Topeka, KS
- Contact: Sue Evers
- Basic HAZUS-MH with a Public Health Focus (Instructor Kevin Mickey)
- August 26-28, 2008
- Loma Linda University, CA
- Contact: Seth Wiafe
- Basic HAZUS-MH Class
- September 2-4, 2008
- Chatham County Annex
- Savannah, GA
- Contact: Dustin Hetzel | Event flyer
- Introduction to Catastrophic Earthquake Planning Using HAZUS-MH
- September 16-17, 2008
- Indianapolis FEMA Joint Field Office
- Indianapolis, IN
- Contact: Kevin Mickey
- Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS-MH
- September 17-19, 2008
- Indianapolis FEMA Joint Field Office
- Indianapolis, IN
- Contact: Kevin Mickey
Online Training
Seven virtual courses are available for HAZUS-MH at ESRI.
HAZUS-MH for Decision Makers
A free training seminar, HAZUS-MH for Decision Makers, is available for viewing at any time on the ESRI Virtual Campus web site. This seminar is to help the user community to have a better understanding of the capabilities of HAZUS-MH.
HAZUS-MH, developed by FEMA, is designed to support the ongoing disaster response needs of communities as well as meet the risk assessment requirements of programs such as the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. The application’s variety of options is useful to a wide range of individuals and organizations, providing tools to both novice users with limited knowledge of hazard analysis as well as advanced users with expertise in the area.
HAZUS-MH for Decision Makers provides an overview of HAZUS-MH capabilities for anyone interested in preparing for and dealing with natural disasters, including elected officials, planners, public health and public safety, engineering and economic development departments, academics, and insurance and utility representatives. The seminar demonstrates the application’s flood, earthquake, and hurricane models and discusses the types of analysis options and output formats that can be derived from each model. Other topics discussed include:
- Key benefits of HAZUS-MH in disaster management and mitigation planning
- Methods for using hazard maps to identify and assess critical resources, infrastructure, and populations at risk
- Strategies for using a geographic information system (GIS) and HAZUS-MH to support decision making for emergency managers
- How to use HAZUS-MH in emergency planning and training exercises
- Opportunities for HAZUS-MH education, user groups, and other user integration
A broadband Internet connection and an ESRI Virtual Campus membership are required to view the seminar. Becoming a Virtual Campus member is free and only takes a few minutes. More information about this seminar, including instructions for viewing, is available.
HAZUS-MH Overview and Installation
Users get an overview of the capabilities of HAZUS-MH, FEMA’s loss estimation tool for earthquake, flood, and hurricane wind hazards. Learn to install the HAZUS-MH software and define a study region (the area of analysis used by HAZUS-MH).
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: Explore the basic types of analysis that HAZUS-MH can perform as well as the types of information about the social and economic impacts of natural hazards that it can generate.
Prerequisite: HAZUS-MH for Decision Makers web seminar
Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH to Assess Losses from a Riverine Flood Hazard
This web course explains the process of defining a riverine flood hazard and performing a loss estimation using HAZUS-MH. While HAZUS-MH offers a wide range of options for defining a flood hazard, this module focuses on the two options that require the least amount of user input - defining a flood hazard based on a return period and defining a flood hazard based on a stream discharge.
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: An easy way for users to obtain an understanding of the potential social and economic impacts that might occur as a result of flooding.
Prerequisite: HAZUS-MH Overview and Installation web course.
HAZUS-MH Flood Model Output and Applications
Users will learn about the types of output that the HAZUS-MH flood model generates about the social and economic impacts of flood events. Loss estimations are based upon impacts to the built environment and to the populations that live in the communities impacted by flooding. Obtain estimates of damages to buildings and their contents, losses to essential facilities, impacts on transportation and utility lifelines, and impacts on agriculture. HAZUS-MH also calculates debris generation and shelter requirements. (Length: approximately 2 hours).>
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: This module provides an overview of the many types of output that the flood model can generate with a focus on how this information can be effectively used by communities to better plan for and prevent losses from flood events.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH to Assess Losses from a Riverine Flood Hazard web course recommended.
Integrating User Supplied Hazard Data into the HAZUS-MH Flood Model
Shows users how to integrate hazard data developed in sophisticated flood engineering models into HAZUS-MH for the purpose of performing a more precise flood loss estimation study than is typically possible in a basic HAZUS-MH analysis. This module addresses two of the options for integrating flood hazard data created in other modeling applications into a HAZUS-MH flood study:
Option 1: User provides a user-defined flood boundary, digital elevation model, and information about a flood surface.
Option 2: User provides only a flood depth grid in an ESRI® Grid format.
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: Enables a scientifically-based loss estimation to be generated on flood hazard data created in other models. This is especially important to those individuals who plan to use HAZUS-MH to support flood insurance studies or community planning goals. Products generated by programs such as the FEMA Map Modernization Program give communities across the United States the inputs required to use the options noted above. The module includes an exercise that explores these techniques and prepares users to conduct these types of flood loss estimation studies within their own communities.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with HAZUS-MH Flood Model.
Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Hurricane Loss Estimation - Available Feb. 2008
The HAZUS-MH Hurricane model makes use of an existing state-of-the-art windfield model to assess the losses that might be experienced from a hurricane. The hurricane model has the capability to assess impacts from historic storms as well as user defined storms. It can also consider the impact of storms based on their probability of occurring.
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: Those who complete this module will be able to use HAZUS-MH to generate estimates of building damage, shelter needs, and economic impacts from hurricane wind events. The module will conclude with a hands-on exercise that includes defining a hurricane scenario and reviewing its social and economic impacts.
Prerequisite: HAZUS-MH Overview
Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Earthquake Loss Estimation - Available Feb. 2008
The HAZUS-MH Earthquake model considers information about building stock, economic data, geology, the location and size of potential earthquakes, and other information to estimate losses that might be incurred from an earthquake. This course will conclude with a hands-on exercise which includes definition of an earthquake scenario and a review of its social and economic impacts. (Length: approximately 2 hours).
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Benefit: Once the location and size of a hypothetical earthquake are identified, the model estimates the violence of the ground shaking, the number of buildings damaged, the number of casualties, the amount of damage to transportation systems, disruption to the electrical and water utilities, the number of people displaced from their homes, estimated cost of repairing projected damage, and other effects.
Prerequisite: HAZUS-MH Overview and Installation web course.
HAZUS Podcast
As part of the ESRI Instructional Series, Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional Education and Outreach at The Polis Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, and Vincent Brown, Senior Program Specialist in the Mitigation Division at FEMA, have produced a free short-audio recording that provides an overview of the courses listed above and their objectives as well as the ideal candidates for them and how they will benefit from the training. Listen at the ESRI Speaker Series Podcasts by clicking on "Interviews with ESRI Users."
