In today’s increasingly complex risk environment, protecting your organization’s critical assets—whether buildings, warehouses, equipment, or vehicles—requires more than just awareness. It demands a proactive, data-driven approach to understanding how those assets intersect with natural and manmade hazards around the globe.
DisasterAWARE’s Asset Protection capability allows organizations to add and manage their own assets directly within the platform, unlocking powerful insights and automated tools to improve disaster preparedness and response. As hazards emerge, users receive timely notifications whenever their assets are threatened. Whether a tropical cyclone is approaching, a wildfire is spreading, or civil unrest is unfolding, DisasterAWARE helps ensure you’re informed—and ready to act.
More than just alerts, DisasterAWARE Enterprise offers a common operating picture that visualizes your assets alongside real-time, forecasted, and historical hazard data. This unified view enables faster, more informed decision-making in the face of emerging threats.
To support operational continuity and risk analysis, the platform also generates customizable exposure reports. These reports aggregate user-defined asset attributes—such as employee counts, inventory value, or critical infrastructure details—helping you assess potential impacts and prioritize response efforts effectively.
For organizations with technical teams, our API allows assets to be securely pushed into the system in real time.
Alternatively, users can configure an ArcGIS-compatible map service that DisasterAWARE automatically polls on a regular schedule to fetch and update asset information.
To make onboarding easy, our team provides both command line tools and professional services to help format your data. Even if your asset data begins as a basic spreadsheet of addresses, we can convert it into the geospatial format needed for use within DisasterAWARE.
When setting up asset tracking, users can define how frequently the system checks for updates (when using a map service), and how much buffer area to include around each asset’s location—essential for tailoring hazard notifications to your operational needs.
DisasterAWARE is fully compatible with ArcGIS authentication and authorization protocols, ensuring that asset visibility and access can be managed securely using your existing credentials and permissions.
Once loaded, assets can be visualized directly in the DisasterAWARE Enterprise application. Users can simply activate the relevant asset layer or access them via the Notification Preferences panel to manage alerts.
To streamline operations, asset classes can be defined at either the organization or group level, allowing teams across departments or regions to share standardized asset definitions. This shared structure reduces onboarding time for new users and promotes consistency in how critical assets are monitored and protected across your enterprise.
Once your assets are added to the DisasterAWARE platform, each is automatically assigned a geofence—a virtual perimeter based on a buffer distance defined by the asset class. This geofence enables DisasterAWARE’s early warning system to continuously monitor for threats and send alerts whenever one of your assets is exposed to a natural or manmade hazard.
To ensure notifications are relevant, users can customize which alerts they receive by setting filters based on hazard type and severity. For example, you may choose to be notified only about high-severity earthquakes or wildfires.
Organizations can also centralize alert management by assigning notification settings—such as hazard types, severity thresholds, and areas of interest—at the group or organization level. This allows business continuity or security administrators to enforce consistent policies across teams. However, individual users can still tailor these settings to meet their specific needs by opting out of the group policy and defining their own alert preferences.
Each notification contains a direct link to the relevant hazard in the DisasterAWARE application, enabling users to quickly assess the situation and take action.
By keeping you informed of threats as they develop, DisasterAWARE helps reduce response time, improve situational awareness, and protect what matters most to your organization.
DisasterAWARE includes powerful Asset Protection tools that help organizations monitor how hazards—such as wildfires—affect the people, places, and infrastructure they care about most.
Once loaded, assets can be viewed in two ways: through the Notification Panel, or by enabling their associated map service layer under the User folder in the Layers Panel.Assets can be user-owned or shared at the organization level. Organizations with multiple teams can also set up Sub-Organizations, each with their own asset classes and notification rules—providing flexibility in how asset data is managed and accessed across departments.
For each asset class, users can define non-user contacts—such as building managers or emergency coordinators—who should receive notifications when a hazard threatens specific locations. These contacts receive email alerts with detailed hazard information, ensuring they stay informed even if they don’t actively use the platform.
These features help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats, understand the geographic relationship between hazards and their assets, and quantify their total exposure—supporting faster, more informed decisions during critical moments.
DisasterAWARE gives your team the strategic advantage of a common operating picture—a unified view of your assets in relation to real-time, forecasted, and historical hazard data. This powerful visualization capability allows you to quickly understand which assets are at risk and how emerging threats may impact your operations.
For example, you can assess whether a warehouse lies within a wildfire’s perimeter, determine if critical infrastructure is in the projected path of a tropical storm, or evaluate the potential impact of a nearby flood event. These insights are critical when making time-sensitive decisions such as whether to suspend operations, adjust logistics, or initiate emergency response protocols.
To enhance situational awareness, users can style their assets based on attributes such as asset type, criticality, or a combination of business-defined factors. These visual indicators make it easier to assess not only the immediate threat to individual locations but also the broader implications for your business continuity.
By integrating asset data with real-time hazard intelligence and contextual datasets, DisasterAWARE enables security and continuity professionals to anticipate disruptions, prioritize resources, and maintain operational resilience—even in rapidly evolving situations.
When a hazard occurs, it’s not enough to know that an asset is in harm’s way—you also need to understand the potential impact to your people, property, and operations. That’s where DisasterAWARE’s Exposure Report becomes an essential tool.
For each hazard, DisasterAWARE defines up to three exposure areas—representing regions that are expected to be severely, strongly, or moderately impacted based on the type and intensity of the event. These areas are hazard-specific and dynamically calculated using advanced models and real-time data.
DisasterAWARE automatically aggregates these values by exposure level and asset class, providing a clear and actionable summary of the risk. This insight supports faster decision-making, helps prioritize response actions, and can be used to inform internal stakeholders, clients, or regulatory reporting requirements.
Each Exposure Report is delivered directly via email to ensure timely access during emergencies. The report is also available within the DisasterAWARE application, where users can explore the details interactively as part of their operational picture.
Whether you’re preparing for a major storm or responding to an unfolding crisis, Exposure Reports equip your team with the intelligence needed to understand what’s at stake—and act accordingly.
DisasterAWARE recognizes that not everyone who needs hazard intelligence will have access to the platform. That’s why it includes the ability to notify non-users—individuals outside of your organization’s DisasterAWARE account—when specific assets are potentially impacted by a hazard.
Building managers
Contractors
Delivery drivers
Field personnel
Population, household, and capital exposure assessments
For each asset, users can define one or more email recipients to be automatically notified when the asset falls within a hazard’s exposure area. These notifications include the same essential risk information provided to platform users, helping recipients make timely decisions—whether that’s postponing a delivery, evacuating a facility, or mobilizing support.
This feature extends the value of DisasterAWARE’s intelligence to internal team members who don’t use the platform directly, improving communication, safety, and coordination across your broader organization.
DisasterAWARE’s Asset Protection capabilities are designed to help organizations safeguard what matters most—by turning hazard data into actionable insights. From adding and visualizing assets, to receiving real-time notifications, generating exposure reports, and extending alerts to internal stakeholders, the platform empowers teams to make faster, more informed decisions during crises.
Whether you’re responsible for business continuity, physical security, or operational planning, DisasterAWARE gives you the tools you need to protect your people, assets, and operations—before, during, and after disaster strikes.