HAZUS
FEMA’s Methodology for Estimating Potential Losses from Disasters
HAZUS-MH is a powerful risk assessment methodology for analyzing potential losses from floods, hurricane winds and earthquakes. In HAZUS-MH, current scientific and engineering knowledge is coupled with the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology to produce estimates of hazard-related damage before, or after, a disaster occurs.
Potential loss estimates analyzed in HAZUS-MH include:- Physical damage to residential and commercial buildings, schools, critical facilities, and infrastructure;
- Economic loss, including lost jobs, business interruptions, repair and reconstruction costs; and
- Social impacts, including estimates of shelter requirements, displaced households, and population exposed to scenario floods, earthquakes and hurricanes.
Federal, State and local government agencies and the private sector can order HAZUS-MH free-of-charge from the FEMA Publication Warehouse. Download the HAZUS-MH Order Form.
HAZUS-MH MR4 (Version 1.4)
The latest version of HAZUS-MH is now available. Features include updated schools and transportation data. Improvements to the Flood Model now provide dam/levee analysis capability, the ability to distinguish pre- and post-FIRM census blocks, as well as many other upgrades. The Earthquake Model includes the latest version of probabilistic maps from the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Hurricane Model now permits the creation of a study region using a hurricane track.
Click here to order HAZUS-MH MR4 now.
Click here to get the MR4 User and Technical Manuals for the different models.
NOW AVAILABLE: Download the HAZUS-MH MR4 Patch 1 and Release Notes
Comprehensive Data Management System (CDMS) version 2.5 is now available
Download the CDMS v2.5 Release Notes
Download the CDMS v2.5 software
Last Modified: Wednesday, 07-Oct-2009 16:42:25 EDT