Models Provide Forecasts for Major Disaster Events
Major weather events drive a lot of business for restoration contractors. Being able to better plan for these events can help contractors run their restoration businesses more efficiently. A pair of tools are designed to forecast natural disasters, which can help in this area.
NOAA recently completed a comprehensive update to its Billion Dollar Disasters mapping tool. The tool now includes U.S. census tract data, providing many users with local community-level awareness of hazard risk, exposure and vulnerability across more than 100 combinations of weather and climate hazards.