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We proudly present our Community Risk Assessment/Standard of Cover as a testament to the District’s years of challenging work and efforts in our never-ending pursuit of continuous quality improvement and the best service possible. 

The District has conducted this Community Risk Assessment / Standards of Coverage (CRA-SOC) for the area it serves. The primary purpose of this document is two-fold:

  • First, identify and assess risks specific to our citizens, visitors, and businesses that it protects.
  • Second, allocate an efficient, effective deployment distribution and concentration of resources to respond appropriately to our mission.

The basis of a Community Risk Assessment/Standards of Cover document is a tool to provide:

  • assessment of community all-hazard risks: fire and non-fire emergencies
  • definitions of baseline (actual) and benchmark (goal) – emergency response performance
  • determination of apparatus and staffing patterns
  • planning for potential future station locations/relocation
  • evaluation of workload and ideal unit utilization
  • measurement of service delivery
  • support of strategic planning and policy development relative to resources and allocation of funds

This analysis is part of the District’s continuous improvement process plan and divides into sections:

  • Overview of Area
  • Programs and Services
  • All Hazard Risk Assessment
  • Risk and Response
  • Service Deployment and Performance
  • Plan for Maintaining and Improving Performance
  • Key Findings and Recommendations

Strategic Plan

The CRA-SOC is a comprehensive self-assessment and quality improvement model that enables the fire district to examine past, current, and future service levels compared to recent research and industry best practices.

The Community Risk Assessment/ Standard of Cover Study helps the fire district to make decisions on apparatus, staffing, and station locations. The document is the framework for strategic planning and policy development to provide necessary resources and fund allocations to meet the growing service demands of the fire district.

Community Risk Reduction (CRR) is a process to identify and prioritize local risks, followed by the integrated and strategic investment of resources to reduce their occurrence and impact.

Standard of Cover (SOC) uses the identified community all-hazard risk assessment for fire and non-fire emergencies. The SOC measures current response based on the past 3-5 years of historical data to determine a baseline and compare that to a benchmark (our goal) based on industry best practices and established standards.