Natural hazards, technological hazards, and other threats can potentially impact the bottom line of a business. An analysis of potential hazards and planning for such events will allow you to mitigate the risk to your business, ensure the safety of personnel and clients, reduce recovery time, and improve the long-term viability of your business. 

Natural Hazard Information:   

• General information on natural hazards including: avalanche, drought, earthquake, flood, landslide, severe storms, tsunami, volcano, and wildfire.
• EMD Hazard Identification Interactive Mapping System (coming soon).
• Washington State Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Washington State Hazard Assessment
• Washington State natural hazards fatalities
• National Weather Service
• Natural hazards data, images and maps from NOAA National Geophysical Data Center.

• Wildfire information, daily incident updates and more information from the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.  
• Wildfire information by incident or state from the InciWeb Incident Information System.

Threats and Technological Hazards:   

• General information, hazard identification and vulnerability assessments, on hazards and threats including chemical emergency, hazardous material, civil disturbance, power outage, terrorism, and others.
• Hazard and threat information covering terrorism, explosions, biological and chemical threats, nuclear and radiological incidents from FEMA.

Related Information and Resources:

• Homeland Security Advisory System
• Washington Homeland Security Newsletter (PDF)
• Perfect Storm - Technological threat to small and medium sized businesses