Residential Fire Risk Identification

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2017

Often, localities can fail to utilize the many information-gathering opportunities provided by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources. The Henrico County Division of Fire sought to utilize various GIS resources to enhance the Division’s efforts toward Community Risk Reduction. As a team, we successfully identified residences within our community at risk for fire by pairing and visualizing census, real estate, utility, and fire incident data. We now have an effective tool, the Residential Fire Risk Identification Program, to provide education and free smoke detectors to those in immediate need.