The following questions will help you determine how much more information to collect, if any.

Do you have enough data to determine:

• Where greatest damages may occur?
• Which critical facilities will be operational after an event?
• Which assets are subject to greatest potential damages?
• If historic, environmental, or cultural resources are vulnerable?
• Severity, repetitiveness, or likelihood of particular hazard?
• Benefit of mitigation actions?

If the planning team decides to proceed, it will gather information on the assets that can be damaged by a hazard event. Characteristics of different hazards create the need for different types of data. For example, for flooding the following data are needed:

• Building type/type of foundation
• Building code design level/date of construction (i.e., before or after the adoption of floodplain ordinance?)
• Topography
• Distance from hazard zone (flood zone)