Introduction to Damage Assessment

Damage Assessment can be used to conduct initial damage assessments after a natural disaster or catastrophic incident.

Initial damage assessments are used by local officials to understand the severity and magnitude of damage to public and private property after an incident. Information collected during these assessments is analyzed to determine if the incident-related costs and damages qualify for any State and/or Federal assistance. Any delays in the assessments could make an organization ineligible for State or Federal assistance.

The Damage Assessment solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you collect damage reports, assign initial damage assessments, monitor the impact of a disaster on the community, brief internal stakeholders, and share information with the public.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

The Damage Assessment solution requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Survey123
• ArcGIS Survey123 Connect
• ArcGIS QuickCapture

Information products

Damage Assessment includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum User Type
Damage Assessment	An ArcGIS Hub site used by emergency management agencies to share damage assessment information with internal stakeholders and the public	Not required
Damage Assessment Photo Viewer	An Attachment Viewer app used by emergency management staff and the public to view photos from windshield reports of damaged property	Not required
Public Damage Report	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to report damages to residence or businesses	Not required
Damage Assessment Operations	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by emergency management staff to manage, monitor and administer damage assessments	Creator
Windshield Damage Report	An ArcGIS QuickCapture project used by public safety or trained volunteers to rapidly capture damage reports	Mobile Worker
Individual Assistance Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by field inspectors with the Survey123 app to conduct initial damage assessments for private properties	Mobile Worker
Public Assistance Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by field inspectors with the Survey123 app to conduct initial damage assessments for public-owned facilities	Mobile Worker
Public Assistance Damage Inventory	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by field inspectors to assess initial damage for public-owned facilities	Mobile Worker
Archive Damage Assessment	An ArcGIS Notebook used by GIS professionals to archive damage assessment reports after an incident	Creator

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a 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 solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
5.0 (Nov 2024)	The Individual Assistance and Public Assistance feature layers, feature layer views and maps have been updated to support FEMA 4.05 Individual Assistance and 4.0.6 Public Assistance data standards. The Damage Assessment site, Damage Assessment Operations app, Windshield Damage Report project, Damage Assessment Photo Viewer app, and Archive Damage Assessment notebook have been updated to incorporate the new feature layers and views. The Public Assistance Damage Inventory, Public Assistance Survey, Individual Assistance Survey, and Public Damage Report ArcGIS Survey123 forms have been updated to incorporate the new feature layers and views. The Damage Assessment Photo Extraction notebook has been removed and replaced with the capabilities of the Export Attachments geoprocessing tool. The IADPreliminaryDamageAssessment Street Sheet Microsoft Word document has been reformatted to print on a single page and adds support for the new data standards. The Damage Assessment Manager ArcGIS Web AppBuilder app has been removed and replaced with capabilities of ArcGIS Web Editor. The Individual Assistance and Public Assistance surveys no longer present an error message when opened in a web browser. This update addresses a reported and solved issue (BUG-000165007).
4.0 (Nov 2023)	A new Damage Assessment ArcGIS Hub Basic site. A new Damage Assessment Operations ArcGIS Experience Builder app. A new Public Assistance Damage Inventory, Public Assistance Survey, Individual Assistance Survey, and Public Damage Report ArcGIS Survey123 form. A new Windshield Damage Report ArcGIS QuickCapture project. A new Damage Assessment Photo Viewer attachment viewer app. A new Archive Damage Assessment and Damage Assessment Photo Extraction ArcGIS Notebook. A series of new Damage Assessment maps. A series of new Damage Assessment feature layers and feature layer views that add support for FEMA's Digital Damage Surveys version 3.2.9.
3.1 (Jul 2022)	A new Windshield Damage Report ArcGIS QuickCapture project.
3.0 (Nov 2021)	A resolution to an issue where dependant questions in the Individual Assistance Express Survey weren't being displayed. This issue required updates to all related info products. A new ArcGIS QuickCapture project. A new Damage Assessment Photo Extraction and Archive Damage Assessment notebook.
2.0 (Jun 2021)	A new Damage Assessment hub site that can be used to share damage assessment information with internal stakeholders and the public. A new app that can be used by the public to view photos of property damage. A new app that can be used by internal stakeholders to manage, monitor and administer damage assessments. A new survey form that can be used to collect public damage reports. A series of new survey forms that can be used to conduct Individual Assistance and Public Assistance assessments. A new ArcGIS QuickCapture project that can be used to collect Windshield Damage Reports. A series of new tools that can be used to collaborate with other agencies, share reports, export photos and archive data. A series of new damage assessment layers and related feature layer views.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	First release of Damage Assessment.