Working for FEMA, we would like to find the neighborhoods that are at high risk for flooding throughout Melbourne, Florida, and neighboring areas to create permanent post stations for crew to be readily available during hurricane season.
Hurricane season poses a threat to most Floridians. As an Emergency Response company, we want to know what areas are at risk for floods to ensure teams will be available in case of an emergency. The FEMA Posts must fall within 5 km of a neighborhood, and close to a flood zone, to qualify for a new post creation. Once the post is created, their will be 50 employees permanently stationed at the location.
The methods used to perform the analysis is obtaining the datasets from public sources like NRCS, USDA, and Land Fire Gov, and the Living Atlas (ArcPro), and a dataset for Melbourne, Florida. Once the data was downloaded, a series of tools were used, in ArcPro, to prep the data for analysis. Some of the tools used in Arc are as follows:
• Split/ clip/ project raster
• Feature class to raster
• Euclidean distance
• Mosaic raster
• Reclassification tool
Once the data was ready for analysis, the weighted overlay tool was used to determine which of the three suggested post locations would be the most ideal.
The conclusion of the analysis is that the post labeled “North’ would be the most ideal location for housing a dedicated location for FEMA.