Introduction to Know Your Zone

Know Your Zone can be used to share evacuation zone information established to help residents evacuate when an emergency or incident occurs.

The frequency and intensity of emergencies has increased and so has the impact on communities. As a result, pre-established evacuation zones and protective actions such as evacuating, sheltering in place have become more important to emergency management operations.

When a storm or wildland fire is approaching, local officials will determine which zones are threatened and who should evacuate. Typically, emergency managers will not evacuate every zone and will work with local media to notify appropriate residents. Implementing a location-based approach and using maps to communicate protective actions will minimize unnecessary travel, ease overcrowding at local shelters, and increase public safety.

The Know Your Zone solution delivers a set of capabilities that help emergency management agencies share essential evacuation zone information with residents.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Know Your Zone requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Online

Information products

Know Your Zone includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Know Your Zone

A Zone Lookup app used by emergency management agencies to share evacuation zone information established to help residents evacuate when an emergency or incident occurs.

Not required

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:

VersionDescription
2.0 (Nov 2023)
  • A new Know Your Zone Zone Lookup Instant Apps app.
  • A new Know Your Zone map.
  • A new Notices and Evacuations feature layer.
1.0 (Nov 2020)
  • First release of Know Your Zone