EADP 3035 FINAL EXAM 2024 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The Hazard Mitigation Planning Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Goal is to have a Mitigation
Action Plan
Organizing Resources - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Single or multiple jurisdictional plan?
2. Stakeholder versus participants?
3. Who is writing the plan?
Direct Representation Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Plan author
2. Planning Team: Direct & Representatives
3. Participants
Authorized Representative Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅*Use with Caution!
1. Plan Author
2. Participants
How to Get Started? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Identify members of your Hazard Mitigation Team
(HMT).
-Identify team leader: Hazard Mitigation Coordinator (HMC).
-Define tasks and responsibilities of HMT and HMC.
-Outline the process.
-Get organized: How will you collect, access and store hazards data and resources for plan?
-Document Everything! Why? Element A
Risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The potential losses associated with a hazard, defined in terms of
expected probability and frequency, exposure and consequences.
Steps in the Risk Assessment Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Identifying Hazards
,2. Profile Hazard Events
3. Inventory Assets and Population (Impact and Vulnerability Assessment)
4. Estimate Losses
5. Describe Land Uses and Development Trends
6. Form Conclusions (Determine Acceptability)
* ELEMENT B of the Local Mitigation Plan
Identifying Hazards (B1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-"What kind of hazards can affect this
community?"
-Only Natural Hazards
-Justify Any Omissions
Profiling Hazards (Element B1 and B2) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-In profiling the hazard, the plan
author must explain how each hazard affects the community by discussing:
1. Location affected by each hazard.
2. Extent of each hazard: How severe is it?
3. Previous hazard events in the community.
4. Probability of the hazard occurring again.
1. Location affected by each hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Clearly identify which areas of the
community are vulnerable to damage by each hazard.
-Show locations using maps
1. Maps must be clear, accurate and readable.
2. Don't try to show too much on one map.
-Be sure to state when the entire planning area is affected equally by a hazard.
2. Extent of Hazard Events - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-A hazard profile must explain the extent of
each hazard, meaning the anticipated severity and magnitude of that hazard.
1.Magnitude- a measure of strength of an event
2.Intensity - a measure of the effects of a hazard in a particular place.
, 3. Create a Hazard History - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Each hazard profile should clearly explain
previous occurrences of that hazard by jurisdiction.
-Should include - as complete as possible - dates of events, types of damages incurred, and the duration
of the event.
History Sources - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Research newspapers and other historical records.
2. SHELDUS
3. National Climate Data Center
4. Prior Disaster Declarations for your area.
5. Data.gov
SHELDUS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States
NCDC (National Climate Data Center) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
-Weather and Climate Data
-Climate Summaries
-Extreme Weather Data (lightning, drought, hurricane, tornado, etc.)
-U.S. Storms Database
4. Probability of Each Hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Some hazards are more likely to occur in a
particular community than others.
-Probability- A statistical measure of the likelihood that a hazard will occur.
a. It is not a prediction!
1. For each hazard, need estimate of the probability of future occurrences.
2. If the probability is the same for each jurisdiction, you need to state this.
3. Probability is based on regional data and local historical evidence.
4. Recurrence interval - time between hazard events of similar size in a given location.
ANSWERS
The Hazard Mitigation Planning Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Goal is to have a Mitigation
Action Plan
Organizing Resources - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Single or multiple jurisdictional plan?
2. Stakeholder versus participants?
3. Who is writing the plan?
Direct Representation Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Plan author
2. Planning Team: Direct & Representatives
3. Participants
Authorized Representative Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅*Use with Caution!
1. Plan Author
2. Participants
How to Get Started? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Identify members of your Hazard Mitigation Team
(HMT).
-Identify team leader: Hazard Mitigation Coordinator (HMC).
-Define tasks and responsibilities of HMT and HMC.
-Outline the process.
-Get organized: How will you collect, access and store hazards data and resources for plan?
-Document Everything! Why? Element A
Risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The potential losses associated with a hazard, defined in terms of
expected probability and frequency, exposure and consequences.
Steps in the Risk Assessment Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Identifying Hazards
,2. Profile Hazard Events
3. Inventory Assets and Population (Impact and Vulnerability Assessment)
4. Estimate Losses
5. Describe Land Uses and Development Trends
6. Form Conclusions (Determine Acceptability)
* ELEMENT B of the Local Mitigation Plan
Identifying Hazards (B1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-"What kind of hazards can affect this
community?"
-Only Natural Hazards
-Justify Any Omissions
Profiling Hazards (Element B1 and B2) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-In profiling the hazard, the plan
author must explain how each hazard affects the community by discussing:
1. Location affected by each hazard.
2. Extent of each hazard: How severe is it?
3. Previous hazard events in the community.
4. Probability of the hazard occurring again.
1. Location affected by each hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Clearly identify which areas of the
community are vulnerable to damage by each hazard.
-Show locations using maps
1. Maps must be clear, accurate and readable.
2. Don't try to show too much on one map.
-Be sure to state when the entire planning area is affected equally by a hazard.
2. Extent of Hazard Events - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-A hazard profile must explain the extent of
each hazard, meaning the anticipated severity and magnitude of that hazard.
1.Magnitude- a measure of strength of an event
2.Intensity - a measure of the effects of a hazard in a particular place.
, 3. Create a Hazard History - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Each hazard profile should clearly explain
previous occurrences of that hazard by jurisdiction.
-Should include - as complete as possible - dates of events, types of damages incurred, and the duration
of the event.
History Sources - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Research newspapers and other historical records.
2. SHELDUS
3. National Climate Data Center
4. Prior Disaster Declarations for your area.
5. Data.gov
SHELDUS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States
NCDC (National Climate Data Center) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
-Weather and Climate Data
-Climate Summaries
-Extreme Weather Data (lightning, drought, hurricane, tornado, etc.)
-U.S. Storms Database
4. Probability of Each Hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Some hazards are more likely to occur in a
particular community than others.
-Probability- A statistical measure of the likelihood that a hazard will occur.
a. It is not a prediction!
1. For each hazard, need estimate of the probability of future occurrences.
2. If the probability is the same for each jurisdiction, you need to state this.
3. Probability is based on regional data and local historical evidence.
4. Recurrence interval - time between hazard events of similar size in a given location.
