Hazard Mitigation and Capacity in Utah Census Places

This dataset contains important categories (per an extensive literature review) in relation to vulnerability to water hazards within Utah at the Census Place level (i.e. cities). Although social and physical vulnerability to water hazards (i.e. flooding) data has been collected extensively in many coastal areas, this is a costly problem in Utah and many other non-coastal regions. The variables shown here are categorized by type and collection method. 1. General data is shown for all Census Places in Utah including County, Geocode, and Total Population. These are taken from the 2010 Census. 2. Literature suggests that there are various approaches which local governments take to mitigate the impacts of flood events. Indicators of these approaches are captured in the section entitled Web Survey. A web survey was conducted of each and every census place in Utah. The data includes evaluations of content including water hazard education, land use restrictions described in the code, freeboard requirements, and emergency operations plan implementations. 3. Information about the local government including their planning and building inspector staff was collected using a phone survey along with emails and website investigations. 4. FEMA data was consolidated from FEMA's website showing census places with current insurance premium discounts achieved by demonstrating compliance with certain federal requirements. It also includes data on policies and losses. 5. A social vulnerability index was created by our team for this project and details can be found here: http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/social-vulnerability-at-the-census-place-level. This dataset includes summary findings from the SoVI index. 6. As housing is recognized in the literature as a contributer to natural hazard vulnerability, important housing statistics were defined and created from Census data. These include housing age, median value, and renter occupied statistics. A standardized rating of building code effectiveness is also included from a recent Utah Hazard Mitigation Report. 7. Event data is summarized for number of events and estimated monetary damages from another of our team's datasets found here: http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/noaa-storm-events. This NOAA dataset helps us understand the nature of past experience and physical exposure to water hazards. 8. As this dataset is focused on water hazard exposure, two measurements were calculated for each census place reflecting the percentage area of the city included in the defined special flood hazard area.

Together these data paint a picture of Utah's vulnerabilities to flood hazards and potential exposure to other natural hazard events. County level statistics were also collected and add insight at that spatial scale. they can be found here: http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/utah-s-counties-sensitivity-to-water-hazards. The variables are different as prescribed in the readme file there.

Further details of the data collection methods can be found in the data dictionary within the spreadsheet workbook or in the ReadMe file included as a resource here.

本数据集包含与犹他州普查地点（即城市）层面水危害易感性相关的重要类别（根据广泛的文献综述）。尽管在许多沿海地区已经广泛收集了社会和物理水危害易感性（例如洪水）数据，但这一问题在犹他州及其他众多非沿海地区造成了高昂的代价。此处展示的变量按类型和收集方法进行了分类。1. 对于犹他州的普查地点，包括县、地理编码和总人口等一般数据均来源于2010年的人口普查。2. 文献指出，地方政府采取各种方法来减轻洪水事件的影响。这些方法的指标在名为网络调查的章节中得到了捕捉。对犹他州的每个普查地点都进行了网络调查。数据包括对内容评估，包括水危害教育、在法规中描述的土地使用限制、自由板要求以及紧急运营计划实施的评估。3. 通过电话调查、电子邮件和网站调查收集了有关地方政府及其规划和建筑检查人员的信息。4. 从联邦紧急事务管理署（FEMA）的网站上整合了FEMA数据，显示了通过证明符合某些联邦要求而获得的当前保险费率折扣的普查地点。还包括了政策和损失数据。5. 我们团队为该项目创建了一个社会易损性指数，详细信息可在以下链接找到：http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/social-vulnerability-at-the-census-place-level。本数据集包括来自SoVI指数的总结发现。6. 由于文献中认识到住房是自然危害易感性的贡献因素，因此定义并创建了重要的住房统计数据，这些数据来自普查数据，包括住房年龄、中位数价值和租户占用统计。还包括了来自最近犹他州灾害减轻报告的建筑法规有效性标准化评级。7. 对事件数据进行了总结，包括事件数量和来自我们团队另一个数据集的估计货币损失，该数据集可在以下链接找到：http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/noaa-storm-events。该NOAA数据集帮助我们了解过去经历和物理暴露于水危害的性质。8. 由于本数据集专注于水危害暴露，因此为每个普查地点计算了两个测量值，反映了城市中包含在定义的特殊洪水危害区域内的百分比面积。这些数据共同描绘了犹他州对洪水危害的易感性和可能暴露于其他自然危害事件的情况。还收集了县级行政区划的统计数据，并在该空间尺度上提供了见解，可在以下链接找到：http://repository.iutahepscor.org/dataset/utah-s-counties-sensitivity-to-water-hazards。变量与readme文件中规定的不同。数据收集方法的更多详细信息可在电子表格工作簿中的数据字典或作为资源的ReadMe文件中找到。