Organization Assessment

The Organization Assessment (OA), Part C of the Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment (RCA),  guides Agency Administrators in their management organization selection, both in escalating and moderating situations (i.e., this process can be used to go up or down in organizations) and is used for all incident types. The OA can be completed by an incident owner or a user granted incident editing or approving privileges. Relative Risk must be assessed before completing the OA, as its inputs feed directly into the OA. Each of these must be completed before a pending decision can be published.

The Organization Assessment is based on the following elements:

• Relative risk
• Implementation difficulty
• Socio/Political concerns

The final part of the OA displays assessment results and an accompanying bar chart to help inform organization selection. Users choose an organization for an incident and document their rationale in the Organization Notes text box.

The IMT type needed to manage an incident will change over time but changing levels of complexity does not warrant a new decision if Incident Objectives, Incident Requirements and the Course of Action remain the same. The Relative Risk and OA can be updated as needed and are visible to the approver when completing the periodic assessment.

In This Section Incidents Assessing the Organization Flame Act Report

See Also Incident Quick Search Generating KMZ Files from the Incident List Incident Setup Incident Ownership About Relative Risk Management Action Points Estimating Final Cost for an Incident Stratified Cost Index Situation Assessment About the Assessment Tab Incident Objectives and Requirements Course of Action About the Cost Tab Estimating Final Cost for an Incident Adding Incident Notes Declaring an Incident Out

Reference Field Descriptions Glossary Resources Spatial Data Reference Landscape Data Source Reference Relative Risk Reference Organization Assessment Reference Fire Behavior Reference About the WFDSS Decision Editors