A hazard footprint appears — flood, fire, surge, quake, hazmat. Draw it, buffer it, import it, or tap a live one, and watch who and what is inside recompute in place: people weighted by social vulnerability, hospitals, schools, responders, road-km and structures — on your own infrastructure, no data leaves the building.
The Planning Section's Situation Unit has to answer it every operational period, and the mitigation planner has to evidence it: under 44 CFR §201.6, a hazard-mitigation plan's risk assessment must identify the hazards and the assets exposed to them. "Who and what is inside the zone" isn't a nice-to-have — it's a compliance deliverable.
Today that answer is assembled by hand, or exported as a static PDF from a desktop tool, or shipped to a vendor cloud to compute. None of those redraws when the boundary moves.
live & interactive · on-prem / no data egress · open-source · hazard-agnostic · authored by describing it, no GIS analyst required.
FEMA NFHL · NOAA SLOSH/surge · WFIGS perimeters · USGS PAGER/ShakeMap. They draw or model the hazard — and do zero exposure math on your assets.
Hazus · InaSAFE · Esri Flood-Impact / Target-Hazard. Expert, US-only, batch — they emit a static report, not a live web recompute.
Esri GeoEnrichment · First Street · Jupiter · Moody's RMS. Interactive, but credit-metered, demographics-only, and your study area egresses to a vendor.
Redraw the boundary → exposure recomputes across every widget, for any peril, on your own servers. That's the cell nobody occupies.
The analysis an ArcGIS Pro analyst runs in a batch tool, running live under your cursor.
Population from an arbitrary polygon is an areal estimate, marked as such — wire Census ACS + CDC/ATSDR SVI for a census count. We never dress an estimate as a census figure.
Live facilities carry a live dot; anything without a machine-readable source carries a DEMO tag. The feed bar shows every source's freshness.
This finds what's exposed — not dollar or casualty loss. We cite Hazus and the National Risk Index as vocabulary; we don't pretend to be them.
A board that fakes certainty is worse than no board. Provenance travels with every figure into the Impact PDF.
| Capability | The incumbents | This analyzer |
|---|---|---|
| Define the impacted area | Draw once, in a desktop tool | Draw · buffer · import · tap-live, any peril |
| Exposure math on your assets | Batch, exported to a static PDF | Live cross-widget recompute in place |
| Where it runs | Vendor cloud / licensed desktop | Your servers · no data egress |
| Equity overlay (SVI) | A separate viewer | Woven into the people count, live |
| Cost & licence | Per-seat / credit-metered | MIT · keyless open basemaps |
We consume their footprints (NFHL · SLOSH · WFIGS · PAGER) and their doctrine (44 CFR · CISA sectors · Community Lifelines · Hazus vocabulary) — and own the part they don't: the live, in-place exposure recompute on your own infrastructure.
| Ledger element | Live source (verified 2026-07-21) |
|---|---|
| Hospitals · schools · shelters inside the zone | Cal OES hosted feature services (CORS-open) |
| Flood & fire footprints (tap-live) | Cal OES 100-yr floodplain · CAL FIRE FIRIS perimeters |
| Road-km inside the zone | Caltrans State Highway Network — clipped live |
| National footprints & exposure | FEMA NFHL · NWS WWA · USGS · Census ACS · CDC SVI · USA Structures |
347 services tagged to the hazard/impact spine from a 2,339-service California inventory, plus 13 external feeds — every endpoint verified before it entered the catalog (500-yr flood is layer /5, HCAI's OID is mixed-case, ACS now needs a key, CGS's real layer is the fault-traces service — we found and fixed each). Re-pointing to your state is configuration, not development.
Hazard Impact Assessment — Flood · California
184,320 people (est.) · 61% higher-SVI · 6 hospitals · 23 schools · 42 road-km
Method: summarize-within · read-only · EPSG:4326
Your planner evidences instead of assembles. Your leadership reads exposure, not guesses. Your mitigation plan starts from live analysis.
Open the demo, buffer a point or sketch a footprint, and watch the exposed people, hospitals, schools and road-km snap into place — then press Impact PDF and hand your planner a packet nobody typed.