Introduction to Target Hazard Analysis

Target Hazard Analysis can be used to identify properties and buildings that could result in a loss of life, or have a negative impact on the community, if a fire were to occur.

Many fire departments are taking proactive steps to assess risk and mitigate the impact of a fire in their community. The first step in this risk assessment is the identification of buildings or properties that may harm the community if a fire were to occur. Occupancy, size, life safety and economic impact are some of the criteria used to assess the risk of a building or property. Understanding risk can be a time consuming process and reducing the time it takes to conduct an assessment saves fire departments money. It also allows them to evaluate their community on a regular basis and measure the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. Target Hazard Analysis is typically implemented by fire departments that want to understand risk in their community and use the assessment to prioritize preplanning activities, fire inspections and other community risk activities.

The Target Hazard Analysis solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you calculate a hazard score for each building or property and understand where a fire may negatively impact a community.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Target Hazard Analysis requires the following:

• ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Pro 3.0 or later (Basic, Standard or Advanced)

Information products

Target Hazard Analysis includes the following information products.

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Target Hazard Analysis	An ArcGIS Pro project package used by fire service personnel to identify properties and buildings that could result in a loss of life, or have a negative impact on the community, if a fire were to occur.	GIS Professional Basic

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.2	An update to the Target Hazard Analysis ArcGIS Pro project which resolves a bug in the Append to Target Hazard Layer tool where the results were not created correctly.
1.1	An update to the Target Hazard Analysis ArcGIS Pro project which simplifies the workflow, includes National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) occupancy standards, and criteria guidance.
1.0	First release of Target Hazard Analysis