Conducting damage assessment following an incident to produce data to help decision makers at the local, state, and federal level do the following:

• Identify unmet needs of survivors and communities
• Evaluate impact for the public, elected officials and the media.
• Engage state and local recovery partners for resources
• Justification for disaster declaration
• Evaluate applicability of state or federal supplemental assistance by providing data regarding
  • Damage to the private sector- Individual Assistance
  • Damage to the public sector- Public Assistance

Damage assessment provides estimates on numbers of displaced persons, person in shelters, persons injured, fatalities and structural losses.

Structural losses are evaluated on 4 criteria:

• Destroyed: Total loss, permanently uninhabitable
• Major: uninhabitable, extensive repairs required that will take more than 30 days to complete
• Minor: uninhabitable, repairs can be completed in less than 30 days
• Affected: no structural damage, habitable without repairs

Damage assessment also provides information regarding future hazard mitigation projects

If you are a resident, please reach out to your city or township for assistance.

If your community needs damage assessment after an incident, please fill out the form below.

https://forms.gle/sem3XGqovXoXs3EP8

For questions, please email EMAPlans@summitoh.net.