A community profile provides a base for overlay analysis and for discussing a hazard’s impacts on a community.

1. A community profile provides a base for overlay analysis and for discussing a hazard’s impacts on a community. Session 13

2. Six Principal Components in a Community Profile • Geographic Profile • Property Profile • Critical Facilities Profile • Infrastructure Profile • High Potential Loss Facilities Profile • Response Profile Session 13

3. Geographic Profile • Land cover • Slope • Topography • Aspect • Lakes • Streams • Wetlands • Watersheds • Soils • Fault lines • Wildland/urban fire interface Session 13

4. Property Profile • Land use • Types of construction • Location of homes • Location of businesses • Location of manufactured homes • Zoning map • Building codes Session 13

5. Critical Facilities Profile • Fire stations • Ambulance locations • Police stations/law enforcement • Hospitals • Schools • Senior centers • Day care centers • City Hall and other public facilities • Prisons and jail facilities • Historic and cultural buildings and areas Session 13

6. Utility lines Water lines Sewer lines Gas lines Pipelines Roads and highways Railroads Airports Waterways Port facilities Bridge locations Communication facilities Transit routes Major energy sources Water purification and treatment plants Landfills Dikes and flood protection structures and facilities Infrastructure Profile Session 13

7. High Potential Loss Facilities Profile • Nuclear power plant • Dams • Military institutions • Industrial sites that manufacture and/or store hazardous materials • Gasoline storage and distribution facilities Session 13

8. Response Profile • Ambulance districts • Fire districts • Emergency first responder districts • Early warning systems • Emergency operations centers • Emergency equipment – fire trucks, ambulances, response vehicles, etc. • Hazmat equipment • Evacuation shelters Session 13

9. Demographic Profile • Population by jurisdiction (i.e. county, city) • Population distribution within a county or city • Population concentrations • Vulnerable populations – children, non-English speaking, elderly and disabled • Animal populations • Locations of major employers and financial centers • Areas of high density residential and commercial development • Recreation areas and facilities Session 13

10. Features of a community’s natural environment • Waterways – rivers and creeks • Wetlands • Lakes • Forests • Coastal dunes Session 13

11. Human practices • Diking rivers and creeks • Damming rivers and creeks • Filling in wetlands for development • Channeling in coastal areas that destroys marsh and wetlands areas • Clear cutting forests • Allowing deadwood to build up on the floor of the forest that will serve as fuel for forest fire • Destroying coastal dunes Session 13

12. Natural Processes • Rain • Snow melt • Severe storms and hurricanes • Drought • Lightning Session 13