Findings Physical Vulnerability Assessment of Hood River County County As one might expect, the highly vulnerable areas in Hood River County are generally located in the more rugged western half of the region, relatively far from civilization and infrastructure. As a resident of the area, I know that these high risk regions are sparsely populated and mostly used seasonally for recreation purposes. Thus, it may be an important goal for future analysis to address means of alerting and evacuating these isolated regions in case of natural disaster occurrence. Cartographer: Zed Debbaut Date: December 17, 2011 Map Projection: NAD 1983 Oregon Statewide Lambert Data Source: ESRI Arc GIS Online 2010 Oregon Spatial Data Library 2010 Physical Vulnerability The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its rugged beauty, serrated landscape, and prodigious rainfall. As a resident of Hood River, Oregon, I am lucky enough to be exposed to such breathtaking scenic variation on a day to day basis. On the other hand, can being able to look out your kitchen window and see three different volcanoes really be considered lucky? In the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, 57 people were killed, not to mention thousands of animals. Hundreds of square miles were absolutely devastated, resulting in over a billion dollars worth of damage. In addition to volcanism, there are other natural dis- asters to worry about in my geographical region, such as land- slides, earthquakes, and floods, oh my! Given the tentatively precarious nature of living in such an area, the purpose of this project is to assess the levels of physical vulnerability through- out Hood River County. This project will demonstrate the use of GIS as a risk analysis tool in evaluating a region’s susceptibility to environmental disaster. Vulnerability Criteria Fault Line Vulnerability Proximity to Hospitals Slope Vulnerability Proximity to Major Roads Hood River County Proximity to Rivers A physical vulnerability assessment was conducted for Hood River County. Five vulnerability criteria were chosen for the evaluation. These criteria were deemed important in terms of their influence on the County’s level of risk exposure. For each criteria, a 1-3 ranking scale was developed, with 1 = low, 2 = moderate, and 3 = high vulnerability. The criteria’s geospatial dataset was then reclassified using this ranking system, and a map was generated for each individual vulnerability factor. The five datasets were then weighted equally in order to create an overall physical vulnerability map for the County. Methodology Background Findings
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Physical Vulnerability Assessment of Hood River County County
As one might expect, the highly vulnerable areas in Hood River
County are generally located in the more rugged western half of
the region, relatively far from civilization and infrastructure. As
a resident of the area, I know that these high risk regions are sparsely populated and mostly used seasonally for recreation
purposes. Thus, it may be an important goal for future analysis to address means of alerting and evacuating these isolated
regions in case of natural disaster occurrence.
Cartographer: Zed Debbaut Date: December 17, 2011
Map Projection: NAD 1983 Oregon Statewide Lambert Data Source: ESRI Arc GIS Online 2010 Oregon Spatial Data Library 2010
Physical Vulnerability
The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its rugged beauty,
serrated landscape, and prodigious rainfall. As a resident of Hood River, Oregon, I am lucky enough to be exposed to such
breathtaking scenic variation on a day to day basis. On the other hand, can being able to look out your kitchen window and
see three different volcanoes really be considered lucky? In the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, 57 people were killed, not to
mention thousands of animals. Hundreds of square miles were
absolutely devastated, resulting in over a billion dollars worth of damage. In addition to volcanism, there are other natural dis-
asters to worry about in my geographical region, such as land-slides, earthquakes, and floods, oh my! Given the tentatively
precarious nature of living in such an area, the purpose of this
project is to assess the levels of physical vulnerability through-out Hood River County. This project will demonstrate the use of
GIS as a risk analysis tool in evaluating a region’s susceptibility to environmental disaster.
Vulnerability Criteria
Fault Line Vulnerability Proximity to Hospitals
Slope Vulnerability
Proximity to Major Roads Hood River County
Proximity to Rivers
A physical vulnerability assessment was conducted for Hood River
County. Five vulnerability criteria were chosen for the evaluation.
These criteria were deemed important in terms of their influence
on the County’s level of risk exposure. For each criteria, a 1-3 ranking scale was developed, with 1 = low, 2 = moderate, and
3 = high vulnerability. The criteria’s geospatial dataset was then reclassified using this ranking system, and a map was generated
for each individual vulnerability factor. The five datasets were
then weighted equally in order to create an overall physical vulnerability map for the County.
Methodology
Background
Findings
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