Hazus Data Preparation and Data Exporter Tool Casey Zuzak FEMA Region VIII
Losses Avoided Study Reducing Losses through Higher Regulatory Standards Goal: to quantitatively analyze floodplain regulations that are, or would be successful if implement. Floodway and Floodplain Development Freeboard Critical Facility Regulation Erosion Setbacks Scenario: Floodplain Development in the 2013 Flood Event
Data Preparation Tool Create geospatial tool to prepare, analyze and export data Data Preparation Tool Data Export Tool Data Analysis Tool Data Preparation Tool: prepares the data for analysis and if structure data are incomplete, utilizes assumptions to estimate values for foundation type and building square footage
City or County Parcel or Building Footprint Data Hazus UDF Needs Hazus UDF Inputs Data Source Secondary Source UDF SQFT Imagery Perimeter * Number of Stories (required) NO Year Built Imagery (required) First Floor Height (FFE) Foundation Type (built before or after NFIP Entry) YES Cost RS Means $/sqft by Occupancy Type * CPI Factor * County Mod Factor Contents Cost Percent of Cost Foundation Type Occupancy Type, within the SFHA, Built before or after NFIP Entry Occupancy Type Google Earth/Google Streetview (required) Num of Stories Occupancy Type and Square footage SFHA FEMA N/A (required) NFIP Entery Hazus Local Flood Regulations (required) DDFs USACE/FEMA Building Sciences OPT City or County Parcel or Building Footprint Data
Data Export Tool Data Export Tool: prepares the dataset to have the attributes necessary for FEMA’s User Defined Facility (UDF) database
Data Analysis Tool Data Analysis Tool: runs scenarios using 100-year flood and 2013 flood event data plus regulatory information to estimate regulatory losses avoided
Data Visualization
Data Links FEMA Region VIII FTP site: https://data.femadata.com/Region8/ Losses Avoided Study: https://data.femadata.com/Region8/ColoradoFlooding_2013/Losses_Avoided_Study/ Hazus UDF tool: https://data.femadata.com/Region8/ColoradoFlooding_2013/Losses_Avoided_Study/Hazus_UDF_Tool/ FEMA RVIII Hazus Level 2 SOP: https://data.femadata.com/MOTF/SOPs/Hazus_Level_2_Site_Specific_Flood_Analysis.pdf