Web Maps and Applications

July 29, 2019

FEMA's Tornado Incident Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

June 5, 2019

FEMA’s Earthquake Incident Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

March 25, 2019

FEMA's Flood Incident Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

March 25, 2019

FEMA Region VII Flood Journal with maps of current and forecasted conditions for situational awareness

March 25, 2019

FEMA's Tornado Hazard model estimates Preliminary Damage Assessments following a tornadic event.

March 24, 2019

November 16, 2018

In order to monitor and assess damage from wildfires accurately and rapidly science has looked to remote sensing techniques of applying spectral burn indices to high optical imagery to extract information on the fire's burned area extent and severity.

November 7, 2018

This post shares applications, maps, data and/or publications that support infrastructure restoration in the aftermath of a disaster. Restoration scenarios might include, but are not limited to system resilience, economic cost models, environmental damage, system interdependency, and their integration into models, tools, datasets and maps.

November 1, 2018

FEMA's Hurricane Incident Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

September 18, 2018

This tool uses the Voyager search engine to find Florence flood images using USGS aerial images from the Hazard Data Distribution System (HDDS). Each search result provides the image, metadata, and download links.

September 14, 2018

The VIIRS Floodwater Fraction Map Products Web App is a tool that displays daily flood extents covering the entire CONUS derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite.

September 14, 2018

August 26, 2018

FEMA Region IX's Hurricane Lane Map Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

August 21, 2018

FEMA's Wildfire Incident Journal provides relevant spatial decision-making support for FEMA leadership and a view into federal information available to the general public.

February 15, 2018

The National Weather Service (NWS) Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT) has been utilized experimentally since 2009 to assess damage following tornadoes and convective wind events. The DAT is a GIS-based framework for collecting, storing, and analyzing damage survey data, utilizing the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale for the classification of damage.

February 14, 2018

HIFLD Open provides National foundation-level geospatial data within the open public domain that can be useful to support community preparedness, resiliency, research, and more. The data is available for download as CSV, KML, Shapefile, and accessible via web services to support application development and data visualization.

February 14, 2018

Civil Air Patrol supports American communities with emergency response, diverse aviation, and ground serves. CAP has the technological ability to perform even when the impact from severe weather affects power, internet, phones, and flight takeoffs, making it a crucial and inexpensive method for FEMA to the get the imagery they need quickly and effectively.

February 14, 2018

The Model & Data Inventory (MoDI) is an inventory of datasets and models used by emergency management. The inventory was based on a federal interagency effort led by FEMA and the Modeling and Data Working Group (MDWG).