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From severe snowstorms to wildfires, America has experienced significant climate disasters since 1980. These events have cost the government trillions of dollars, with every state in the U.S. falling victim to at least one-billion-dollar disaster since records began.

Without the right infrastructure and urban planning, residents can be at far higher risk of injury and death in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Many government agencies rely on accurate hazard data to help make informed urban planning decisions and guide their risk management strategies.

Previously, government bodies could only act once disaster hit, but with more comprehensive accessible data on man-made and natural disasters available than ever, more and more government agencies are taking pro-active steps to help mitigate the far-reaching damage of such events before they occur.

With natural hazard data on neighborhoods within your jurisdiction, you can help better assess the need for additional infrastructure, amenities, and policy measures that would help benefit the highest risk areas. Read on to see how you can put hazard data to use to better manage risk and help mitigate the impact of natural and man-made disasters.

Data-Informed Urban Planning to Manage and Mitigate Risk

Natural and human-created disasters cost governments billions of dollars — leading to injury and loss of life, destruction to wildlife and damage to local homes, businesses, and infrastructure.

There are many steps that governments can take to help mitigate the risk of disasters, from boosting public awareness on how to best respond following a natural disaster to developing early warning detection systems to help mitigate the impact of disasters and to support citizens and wildlife.

One of the most effective ways local governments can help manage the risk of disasters and hazards is through data-informed urban planning.  Whether citizens are exposed to hazard zones through work or home life, government bodies can take steps to help manage risk and address vulnerabilities through structural and additional risk reduction measures.

Utilizing Risk Management with ATTOM’s Hazard Data

ATTOM’s comprehensive property data can be used to help pinpoint high risk zones to guide these decisions on urban planning and risk management.

You can use our environmental hazard data to gain insights into the risk of specific natural hazards occurring in a particular neighborhood. We compile data on a number of natural and man-made risks including:

  1. Wind risk — our wind risk data is modelled on historic events in which wind speeds have exceeded 50 mph.
  2. Hail risk — the relative risk of hailstorms.
  3. Tornado risk — the risk of tornados based on an analysis of over 65,000 tornados that have taken place from 1950.
  4. Clandestine drug labs — data collected from The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that suggests the presence of clandestine drug laboratories or dumpsites.
  5. FEMA flood hazard risk — provides insights into flood hazards and flood zones.
  6. Hurricane risk — the risk of hurricanes based on publicly available USGS hurricane records from 1851 and beyond.
  7. Weather risk — offers a unified risk index based on the relative risk of hurricane, tornado, hail, and wind events occurring at the block group level and above.
  8. Air pollution — this data covers five different air pollution risks, including ozone, lead carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide.
  9. Radon hazard — local data is integrated with EPA data to help uncover the potential for elevated indoor radon levels.
  10. Earthquake risk — based on a catalog of both recent and past earthquakes alongside research and models from academia and the government.

This data is complied, validated and easily accessible to local government agencies — making it a great foundation for hazard risk assessments, supporting risk management and mitigation.

Take flood hazard risk, you can use this data to help identify flood-prone areas and put in initiatives to prohibit urban planners from building homes and businesses in the highest-risk areas. In addition, properties in areas at risk of flooding can further be fortified with water-resistant materials and construction barriers.

ATTOM for Government Agencies

With ATTOM, you can access exhaustive data on over 155 million U.S. properties. As one of the leading solutions on the market, our property data offers 99% population coverage and approximately 30 billion rows of transactional level data. Our data is multi-sourced from over 3,000 U.S. counties and includes over 70+ billion rows of data.

To help ensure quality, using our rigorous Enterprise Data Management Program (EDMP), we validate, standardize, and enhance our real estate data in a process that spans over 20 steps. Moreover, you can access our data through a variety of highly flexible solutions, from bulk data licensing to the ATTOM cloud and match and append.

Get ATTOM’s Hazard Data for the Government Sector

Keeping constituents safe and steeling local communities and economies against man-made and natural disasters is one of the most pressing concerns for local governments. ATTOM has been providing comprehensive hazard data to government agencies for years, offering 99% population government.

With the right data-driven insights, you can take steps to help prepare people living in high-risk areas for potential disasters, mitigate risk, and provided needed boosts to infrastructure and amenities.

If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch with our data experts today.

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