About the Assessment Tab

The Assessment tab allows consolidated access to the Relative Risk and Organization Assessments, both required parts of a decision. The customized Risk Tables and Benefits assessments provide an additional level of decision support, as do the Weather, Risk, and Benefits sections of a decision which are accessible when editing decision content. Fire behavior analysis results, such as STFB, NTFB, and FSPro are also a necessary assessment element and if available, can be added to a decision using the decision editors. Collectively, these assessments frame the risk associated with an incident and help guide development of Incident Objectives, Incident Requirements and an appropriate Course of Action.

Note: If using the Default Decision Editor, fire behavior results can be added to a decision on the Risk vertical tab. If the Advanced Decision Editor is used, fire behavior analysis results must be added via the Text Editor (accessible when editing a decision).

Using the Assessment tab and Weather, Risk and Benefits vertical tabs, you can:

• View or calculate relative risk
• View the Organization Assessment or assess the organization
• Create customized risk tables from existing tables such as planning area values inventory or those derived from modeling outputs.
• Use the benefits slider to show the amount of benefit expected from a fire and add supporting comments.
• Add fire behavior analysis results to support the decision made.
• Add fuels/fire behavior information to support the decision or provide understanding of the situation.
• Document what weather and climatological information were considered.

In This Section Incidents Creating and Editing Customized Risk Tables

See Also Incident Quick Search Generating KMZ Files from the Incident List Incident Setup Incident Ownership About Relative Risk Organization Assessment Management Action Points Estimating Final Cost for an Incident Stratified Cost Index Situation Assessment 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