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 hurricanes.  The focus of the course is on the processes that are used to define a hurricane 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.

The course begins with a review of the basics of the hurricane model components.  This is followed by a detailed discussion on the definition of the hurricane hazard including a review of the key components that drive the hazard analysis and the damage models that generate the analysis output.  The class continues by providing students with an understanding of the means by which HAZUS-MH can be applied to meet the needs of a variety of emergency management functions including techniques for estimating shelter, debris, and economic impacts as well as how this type of information can be applied to support the identification of mitigation strategies.  It concludes with a review of model uncertainties and the means by which to address those uncertainties within the analysis process.

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