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Valley County unveils mobile risk-assessment dashboard to guide wildfire mitigation and incident response
Summary
County staff previewed a mobile dashboard that maps parcel-level wildfire risk, ties to assessor data, and will be restricted to approved emergency and fire personnel; commissioners asked how it will be used for permitting, grants and public access.
Valley County officials on June 16 previewed a new mobile risk-assessment dashboard intended to give fire chiefs, emergency managers and county staff parcel-level information about wildfire exposure, structure vulnerability and mitigation priorities.
The dashboard compiles prior site assessments into a searchable map linked to the county assessor parcel pages and assigns numerical risk values for lots and structures. Presenter Juan, Valley County's emergency manager, said the tool is intended for use by fire personnel, emergency managers and grant writers rather than as a public-facing scorecard.
Juan told commissioners the inventory dates to assessments begun in 2011 and updated through 2018; those efforts produced about 13,000 assessments and roughly 5,000…
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