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Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
Contact the Bureau of Preparedness and Response
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Mailing Address
Florida Department of Health
4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin A23
Tallahassee, FL 32399
The Florida Department of Health provides resources for public health risk and vulnerability assessment for emergency preparedness and response planning.
- Florida Department of Health Resources
- State Resources
- Federal and Other Resources
The Florida Public Health Risk Assessment Tool - The FPHRAT captures information in a residual risk matrix that produces a risk, capability and resources gap analysis for each hazard by county. Access is managed to allow county planner(s) to rank capability functions, resources, and hazards. This tool requires a login password to protect the integrity of the data.
The guide to learn how to use this tool is:
The 2021 FPHRAT Users’ Guide provides information for completing assessments, creating reports and interpreting the data.
State of Florida Enhanced Hazard Mitigation Plan 2023 - The Florida Enhanced State Hazard Mitigation Plan (SHMP) is designed to reduce death, injuries, and property losses caused by natural hazards in Florida. The plan identifies hazards based on the history of disasters within the state and lists goals, objectives, strategies, and actions for reducing future losses. Implementation of planned, pre-identified, and cost-effective mitigation measures not only helps reduce loss to life, property, and the environment, but also streamlines the disaster recovery process.
Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS) is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard event types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each county. This tool does not require a login password.
Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database that includes information on terrorist events around the world. It includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents. This tool does not require a login password.
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