Natural Disaster? WILDFIRES

Can your organization survive a natural disaster? WILDFIRES

What crisis event would be the number one Number of Hours of Advance concern for your organization? Warning to Prepare for Event

NaturalNatural DisasterDisaster 192 81 62 45 24% Hurricane Flood Ice Storm/ Fires/Wildﬁres Winter Weather 28% 15% 6% Cyber Attack Signiﬁcant Reputation Loss of Life Event Event 55 17 4 2 19% 8% Typhoon Tornado Dust Storm Earthquake Workplace/School Terrorist Event Violence *7th Edition Firestorm Analytical Solutions Crisis Event Impact Management Report

Natural Disaster Events that Led to Invoking or Average Estimated Financial Loss by Activating Business Continuity/Resiliency Programs: Natural Disaster Event Will Exceed 100% Due to Multiple Selection Options

1% Dust Storm $32,857 $2,417,750 Earthquake Flood 18% Earthquake 24% Fire/Wildﬁres $1,014,375 1,680,625 Fire Hurricane 33% Floods 21% $11,875 $30,000 Heat Excessive Typhoon Other 61% Hurricane 46% Ice Storm/Winter Weather $186,713 $12,500 Ice Storm/Winter Weather Tornado 1% Landslide *7th Edition Firestorm Analytical Solutions Crisis Event Impact Management Report 13% Tornado 10% Typhoon More than 1% Volcano Eruption/Ash Cloud 9% Other 8,400 *7th Edition Firestorm Analytical Solutions Crisis Event Impact Management Report structures were lost during the California ﬁres in 2017 *San Francisco Business Times

Planning for A Natural Disaster Planning Before a Crisis Strikes – your organization must consider: An Alternative Workplace Businesses often fail to test recovery facilities. Testing uncovers problems that businesses discover when a disaster strikes, such as:

Is the location too close to the disaster? 1 If the recovery site is too close to the primary work-site, it too may be affected by the same incident.

Is the location too small? 2 If you have a 'syndicated seat' program in place (work seats available on a ﬁrst-come/ﬁrst-serve basis), you may be closed out of work stations.

Is the location too far away? 3 If the recovery site it too far away, employees may be unable to travel long distances due to families and other commitments.

646 445 Number of employees Days spent in business negatively impacted by resumption (back to normal wildﬁres business) following a wildﬁre

*7th Edition Firestorm Analytical Solutions Crisis Event Impact Management Report

How to Prepare for a Wildfire

9 Ways to Prepare Your Organization for a Wildﬁre * National Interagency Fire Center

Have plenty of ﬁre extinguishers Have ﬂashlights and extra batteries on location and have them available in case your business inspected regularly. loses electricity.

Have an evacuation plan in Back up important documents place to safely exit the building. that could be destroyed.

Practice your evacuation plan so Make sure that your business each employee will know how to structure is built with ﬁre-resistant exit the building calmly and safely. materials, especially the roof.

Make sure that your business is Talk to other businesses in your clearly marked to assist emergency area to see what they have done vehicles ﬁnding it easily. to prepare for wildﬁres.

Follow local smoke detector and If you are a business owner, check your insurance sprinkler system ordinances. coverage and keep detailed records of business activity that is negatively affected due to the wildﬁre event. Keep a list of extra expenses during the interruption. Prepare records to show the income from the business both before and after the loss.