From Hazard Footprints to Real-World Consequences.

Geographic Exposure Intelligence

Understanding where a disaster occurred is the first step. Understanding what lies within or near its geographic footprint makes that information actionable.

DisasterAWARE combines hazard locations, geographic footprints, severity information, and available exposure datasets to help organizations evaluate potential risk to people, properties, infrastructure, and operational assets.

Supported analysis can include:

By connecting hazard intelligence with geographic exposure, DisasterAWARE helps customers understand which locations may require attention.

• •Property & Building Exposure: Identify buildings and property locations intersecting or near relevant hazard areas.
• •Business & Facility Exposure: Evaluate customer-supplied locations, offices, warehouses, suppliers, and other operational assets against geographic threats.
• •Population Exposure: Understand population distribution and other demographic characteristics in potentially affected areas.
• •Critical Infrastructure: Evaluate available geographic information about transportation networks, utilities, healthcare facilities, and other important infrastructure.
• •Geographic Vulnerability: Incorporate relevant socioeconomic, environmental, and community vulnerability information to provide additional context.

Hazard Severity & Potential Impact Assessment

Not every location within a disaster's geographic footprint experiences the same conditions.

The severity of a hazard at or near a location can be an important indicator of potential consequences.

DisasterAWARE combines available hazard intensity measurements, modeled estimates, observed footprints, and geographic information to help characterize potential exposure.

Examples include:

This intelligence helps technology partners move beyond binary questions such as whether a property was inside a warning area.

Instead, they can evaluate the severity of the hazard, the geographic relationship to an asset, and whether further investigation may be warranted.

• •Severe Convective Storms: Estimated hail sizes, hail swaths, tornado tracks, and damaging wind footprints.
• •Flooding: Observed water levels, available inundation extents, and estimated flood depths.
• •Wildfires: Active fire locations, evolving perimeters, and proximity to exposed assets.
• •Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones: Storm tracks, wind radii, intensity information, and geographic wind footprints.
• •Earthquakes: Shaking intensity, peak ground acceleration, and geographic severity estimates.
• •Other Hazards: Available severity indicators and geographic event information for additional supported natural and human-induced threats.

Exposure indicates potential risk—not confirmation that damage occurred.

Associated Impacts & Reported Consequences

A disaster's consequences often extend well beyond its initial hazard footprint.

DisasterAWARE associates available impact information with disaster events to help customers understand what happened to affected communities, infrastructure, and operations.

Existing event intelligence includes available information about:

We are expanding this capability to incorporate additional event-linked datasets, including:

The objective is to connect these observations and reports to the underlying disaster event, its geographic footprint, and its evolution over time.

This creates a richer record of what occurred—not simply where the hazard was detected.

• •Human Impacts: Reported fatalities, injuries, displacement, and other humanitarian consequences.
• •Community Impacts: Available information about affected populations, communities, and essential needs.
• •Physical Damage: Reported destruction, damaged structures, and other documented physical consequences where available.
• •Operational Disruptions: Available information about evacuations, road closures, transportation interruptions, and other disruptions.
• •Insured losses and broader economic damages.
• •Power outages and utility disruptions.
• •Damaged buildings and property-level impact information.
• •Business interruptions and supply chain disruptions.
• •Transportation network interruptions.
• •Other cascading and downstream consequences.

Connected Event Intelligence for Analysis & Decision Support

DisasterAWARE brings together multiple dimensions of an event: what was forecast, what was observed, where it occurred, how severe it was, what may have been exposed, and what consequences were reported.

These relationships provide a foundation for increasingly sophisticated disaster analysis.

Technology partners can use supported intelligence to:

Our long-term vision is to expand these connections into a comprehensive disaster intelligence repository capable of supporting more advanced AI-driven analysis and decision guidance.

By learning from historical events, observed conditions, exposure patterns, and reported consequences, this future intelligence foundation is intended to help organizations move toward answering a more valuable question:

• •Identify locations potentially exposed to an active disaster.
• •Compare observed hazard severity across geographic areas.
• •Review available reports of damage and disruption.
• •Connect historical catastrophe events with associated impacts.
• •Support automated monitoring, event analysis, and risk assessment workflows.

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