Category:HAZUS Training

This course provides in-depth instruction and hands-on exercises that develop the skills needed to effectively use HAZUS-MH for modeling the impacts on communities from riverine and coastal flooding.  The focus of the course is on the processes that are used to define a flood hazard and to generate social and economic loss estimations.  However, the course also provides a review of the methodologies used to compile the extensive out-of-the-box inventory that is provided with HAZUS and it provides an introduction to the techniques for updating the inventory, which is largely composed of best available national data sources, with more accurate aggregate and site specific local data.

Participants will become familiar with the many options that HAZUS-MH provides for generating a flood depth grid.  These range from having HAZUS-MH define a flood hazard with limited data to providing HAZUS-MH with detailed information about a flood hazard produced by other modeling tools or obtained from sources such as the products generated by the FEMA Map Modernization Program.  Following discussion of the hazard development process, the course will explore mechanisms used to analyze losses as well as the multitude of maps, tables, and reports that HAZUS-MH generates with a focus on how to interpret the wealth of information provided in these outputs.  Finally, students will be provided with an opportunity to complete a group exercise that enables them to apply the valuable skills learned in class.

Prerequisites: Participants in this course must complete the “Basic HAZUS-MH” course and have skills equivalent to those taught in the “Introduction to ArcGIS for HAZUS-MH Users” course.

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• HAZUS Training