Session 13 1

A community profile provides a base for overlay analysis and

for discussing a hazard’s impacts on a community.

Session 13 2

Six Principal Components in a Community Profile

• Geographic Profile

• Property Profile

• Critical Facilities Profile

• Infrastructure Profile

• High Potential Loss Facilities Profile

• Response Profile

Session 13 3

Geographic Profile

• Land cover

• Slope

• Topography

• Aspect

• Lakes

• Streams

• Wetlands• Watersheds• Soils• Fault lines• Wildland/urban fire

interface

Session 13 4

Property Profile

• Land use

• Types of construction

• Location of homes

• Location of businesses

• Location of manufactured homes

• Zoning map

• Building codes

Session 13 5

Critical Facilities Profile • Fire stations• Ambulance locations• Police stations/law enforcement• Hospitals• Schools• Senior centers• Day care centers• City Hall and other public facilities• Prisons and jail facilities• Historic and cultural buildings and areas

Session 13 6

Infrastructure Profile

• Utility lines• Water lines• Sewer lines• Gas lines• Pipelines• Roads and highways• Railroads• Airports• Waterways

• Port facilities• Bridge locations• Communication facilities• Transit routes• Major energy sources• Water purification and

treatment plants• Landfills• Dikes and flood protection

structures and facilities

Session 13 7

High Potential Loss Facilities Profile

• Nuclear power plant

• Dams

• Military institutions

• Industrial sites that manufacture and/or store hazardous materials

• Gasoline storage and distribution facilities

Session 13 8

Response Profile • Ambulance districts• Fire districts• Emergency first responder districts• Early warning systems• Emergency operations centers • Emergency equipment – fire trucks,

ambulances, response vehicles, etc.• Hazmat equipment• Evacuation shelters

Session 13 9

Demographic Profile • Population by jurisdiction (i.e. county, city)• Population distribution within a county or city• Population concentrations• Vulnerable populations – children, non-English

speaking, elderly and disabled• Animal populations• Locations of major employers and financial

centers• Areas of high density residential and commercial

development• Recreation areas and facilities

Session 13 10

Features of a community’s natural environment

• Waterways – rivers and creeks

• Wetlands

• Lakes

• Forests

• Coastal dunes

Session 13 11

Human practices • Diking rivers and creeks• Damming rivers and creeks• Filling in wetlands for development• Channeling in coastal areas that destroys marsh

and wetlands areas • Clear cutting forests• Allowing deadwood to build up on the floor of the

forest that will serve as fuel for forest fire• Destroying coastal dunes

Session 13 12

Natural Processes

• Rain

• Snow melt

• Severe storms and hurricanes

• Drought

• Lightning