Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (SouthWRAP)
Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (SouthWRAP) is an exciting new tool being used by the Florida Forest Service and the Southern Group of State Foresters. This web-based tool provides Floridians access to consistent statewide wildfire risk information. Through SouthWRAP, wildfire mitigation specialists, prevention planners, community leaders and citizens can generate maps and download data that represent specific areas of interest.
SouthWRAP provides easy-to-use, consistent, high quality wildfire risk information that is accessible to Floridians anytime.
Applications
Public Viewer: “Identify Wildfire Risk at Home”
Users can pinpoint and zoom to a place of interest, explore map themes and identify wildfire risk. The featured tool in this application is called “What’s Your Risk?”. It allows users to identify fire intensity potential around a home or any other point of interest on the map. It also provides a link to additional resources for users to help reduce their wildfire risk.
Professional Viewer: “Support Your Fire Protection Plans”
This feature is designed to support the community wildfire protection planning needs of government officials, hazard mitigation planners and wildland fire professionals. This application contains advanced functionality and additional map themes. The key features of this application include the capability to define a project area, generate a detailed risk summary report and export and download wildfire risk Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data.
Community Editor: “Assess Homes and Communities”
Allows the Florida Forest Service to create and manage wildfire assessments at the community level. This includes community, home and post-fire home assessments. All information is collected using standardized forms and is stored in a centralized database.
SouthWRAP User Manual: A simple step-by-step guide on how to use SouthWRAP is provided. The manual provides all the information necessary to learn how to use the Public Viewer, Professional Viewer, and Communities-at-Risk Editor applications.
Highly Accessible to the Public and Key Stakeholders
- Expands risk assessment information availability to virtually anyone with a basic computer and internet connection. Expensive mapping software is no longer needed to access and analyze the data
- Increases awareness, communication and visualization of wildfire risk information for a significantly larger customer-base
- Centralizes the operation, administration and storage of risk assessment data, eliminating the need for local software installation and data management
- Presents a seamless statewide picture of wildfire risk
User-Friendly, High Performance Applications
- Provides fast, intuitive and easy-to-use applications that allow most users to learn the application within minutes
- Provides users with online self-training content
- Removes the need for most users to learn complex mapping software (GIS)
- Allows non-GIS users to perform complex GIS functions quickly and easily (i.e. detailed risk summary report)
Adoptable and Adaptable Development Framework
- Demonstrates the capability to deploy risk assessment information to the web
- Serves as a prototype for other states or regions to adopt and implement
- Reduces investment for others
- Establishes a baseline application that can be easily enhanced in the future
Disclaimer: The user assumes the entire risk related to their use of these data. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is providing these data "as is" and disclaims any and all warranties, whether expressed or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of these data.
