Risk assessment for emergency management

Every plan starts with risk.Start yours with the evidence already in hand.

Hazzard reads your plans, studies and the federal record, drafts a cited assessment of every hazard, and leaves every conclusion to your team.

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  • Built by an emergency manager
  • Every claim cited to its page
  • Your team decides every score

Four plans. One assessment underneath them all.

Mitigation, operations, incident and capability plans all rest on the same questions: what could happen here, how bad would it be, and how ready are we? The assessment is meant to enable that planning, not delay it.

  • Hazard mitigation plan

    Reduce long-term community risk

    Every 5 years

  • Emergency operations plan

    Roles, coordination and declarations

    Every 3 years

  • Incident-specific plans

    Flood, wildfire, active threat, cyber, hazmat

    As threats change

  • Capability assessments

    Staffing, equipment and resources

    Every budget cycle

The risk assessment · every hazard your community faces

  • Likelihood
  • Impact
  • Readiness

13 categories · 73 hazards and threats

Built the traditional way, that assessment is:

  • Scattered across dozens of reports
  • Inconsistent methods, undocumented assumptions
  • Out of date by the next plan cycle
  • Hard to defend to executives and elected officials

You already have the evidence. It’s stuck in PDFs.

Your plans, THIRAs and studies already say what you face. Hazzard reads every page, checks every quote against its source, joins it to the national record, and gives your team one place to rate every hazard.

01What you already have

  • PDF

    Hazard mitigation plan

  • PDF

    THIRA / SPR

  • PDF

    Emergency operations plan

  • PDF

    Wildfire protection plan

  • PDF

    Asset inventory

  • PDF

    Consultant study

02Hazzard reads every page

  1. Read every pageText, scans, tables and figures
  2. Recover the structureContents and the section tree
  3. Extract every hazard mentionIn the document's own words
  4. Check each quote against its pageNo match, no evidence
  5. Map it to the taxonomyOr queue it for a person
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency logoFEMA4 datasets
    1. Plan Status Registry
    2. National Risk Index
    3. HMA Projects
    4. Disaster Declarations
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration logoNOAA2 datasets
    1. NOAA County Weather
    2. NWS Active Alerts
  • U.S. Census Bureau logoCensus Bureau1 dataset
    1. Census ACS Profile
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services logoHHS1 dataset
    1. HHS emPOWER

Joined to the national record · Daily, 07:00 UTC. Logos identify each dataset’s publisher; no endorsement is implied.

03One cited record

Mitigation plan, 2021

Example

  • 4.2 Hazard profile: Wildfire

    “The wildland–urban interface on the county’s western edge has grown with each plan cycle.”
    p. 142Quote matches pageSubstantive

  • 5.1 Capability assessment

  • 6.3 Mitigation actions

04Your team rates every hazard

73 hazards and threats, 13 categories

ExampleLikelihoodImpactReadinessWildland fireRiverine floodingTornadoRansomware

Drafted from cited evidence. Rated by your team.

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The output

What you hand your council: a brief that defends itself.

One hazard. Likelihood, impact and readiness on your own scale, every figure sourced, every sentence tied to its page.

  1. 1

    Scored by your team, on your scale

    Likelihood, impact and readiness, each with its level definition. The draft is cited; the number is yours.

  2. 2

    Your plans alongside the federal record

    Source documents and verified mentions next to FEMA declarations and the National Risk Index.

  3. 3

    Every sentence cites its page

    Footnotes resolve to the quote and page they came from, on screen and on paper.

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Where this brief sitsBrowse the taxonomy →

  1. 73 hazards & threats · 13 categories

  2. Wildfire · 3 items

    • Wildland Fire
    • Wildland-Urban Interface Fire
    • Grassland / Prairie Fire

  3. Evidence brief

    Wildland Fire

    Cedar Ridge County (example)

    L3 · I4 · R3

Evidence brief for Cedar Ridge County (example)

September 14, 2026

Wildland Fire

Hazard in Wildfire, on the established threats & hazards list

Impact
5432112345

Likelihood

Likelihood
3

Possible — Expected occasionally — roughly once in 10 to 50 years (2–10% chance in any year).

Impact
4

Major — Severe effects — casualties possible, serious damage across a significant share of the jurisdiction, essential services disrupted for weeks, outside assistance needed.

Readiness
3

Moderate — The organization has a generally established capability to manage this threat or hazard, but identifiable gaps remain. The organization could likely perform many required actions, though effectiveness may vary depending on conditions, staffing, resources, or complexity.

  • 3source documents
  • 148verified mentions
  • 2federal declarations
  • 91.6NRI score, relatively high

Likelihood

3 of 5, Possible · verified

The county fire district recorded 64 wildland fires from 2010 through 2024, most under one acre; the largest, the 2018 Pine Hollow Fire, burned 1,240 acres.1 The 2022 wildfire protection plan maps 18,400 acres of wildland–urban interface along the western foothills, with about 3,100 homes within half a mile of continuous fuels.2

Sources for this assessment

  1. 1“Between 2010 and 2024 the District responded to 64 wildland fires, the majority of which burned less than one …”C, p. 4
  2. 2“The WUI boundary encompasses approximately 18,400 acres, concentrated in the western foothills, with roughly 3…”B, p. 12
Worked example: Cedar Ridge County is fictional. The scores illustrate the format and are nobody's decision.

  • Faster

    Start mitigation, preparedness and response work sooner.

  • Consistent

    One method and one picture of risk across every plan.

  • Defensible

    Every conclusion traces to a source and a person.

  • Living

    Each document and plan cycle adds to the record instead of starting over.

Over time, Hazzard becomes your organization’s living understanding of risk, so the next plan starts ahead instead of from scratch. See pricing →

The national record

It already knows your county.

FEMA’s risk index, disaster declarations and plan status, Census and NOAA data, for every U.S. county, joined before your first meeting.

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Map of the United States with each of 3,133 counties coloured by its FEMA National Risk Index percentile.
3,133 countiesLowerHigher

Every county’s composite risk, FEMA National Risk Index. Find your county →

Who builds this
Former director of national Emergency Management planning
Engineer who shipped AI systems for the Fortune 100

Patrick has written and run the plans this product reads. Chris has shipped AI systems that had to survive an audit. We started Hazzard because the risk picture a community depends on was scattered across binders, consultants and inboxes — and because the tools that promised to fix it never showed their work.

Patrick Van Horne, Co-founder & CEO

Patrick Van Horne

Co-founder & CEO

Boulder, Colorado

Patrick leads Hazzard's strategy, operations, customer development, and go-to-market efforts. His career has focused on helping organizations understand risk, prepare for uncertainty, and make better decisions before consequences become unavoidable.

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Christopher Knight, Co-founder & CTO

Christopher Knight

Co-founder & CTO

Denver, Colorado

Chris leads Hazzard's product, engineering, and technical architecture. His work focuses on building trustworthy software and AI systems that can turn large, complex bodies of information into structured, usable products.

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Built for government security review

Hazzard is being built to GovRAMP standards from the ground up. Our control framework is in place, and we will be working with GovRAMP to be verified as soon as possible.

  1. In place

    Control framework

  2. In Progress

    GovRAMP membership

  3. Targeted in the coming months

    GovRAMP verification

How the platform handles your data today

  • Consultants get scoped access, not your login

    A partner grant is read-only, limited to named surfaces, granted when work starts and revoked when it closes. It is not a role, so nobody becomes a member of your organization to do a study.

  • Every consequential action is on the record

    Hazard decisions, approvals, uploads, access grants and re-runs all write an audit event. The table is append-only: no update path, no delete path, no exceptions.

  • One document, however many jurisdictions hold it

    Documents are addressed by content, so a regional plan shared across member towns is one document with many claims on it. Release the last claim and it is gone; release yours and everyone else's stays.

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Hazzard Insights · the blog

How to prepare your county — with technology.

Practical writing for emergency managers, planners and fire chiefs: getting a hazard plan out of the binder, putting national risk data to work, and using AI without losing the citations. What we learn from the jurisdictions we work with, written down.

  • Hazard mitigation plans
  • County risk data
  • AI for emergency management
  • Lessons from the field

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