Threat and Hazard Identification
​Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Preparedness Report Development

 About THIRA
Conducting a threat and hazard identification risk assessment, or THIRA, allows a community to identify, understand, and prepare to deal with the natural, technological, and human-caused risks that it faces.  By understanding its risks, a community can make smart decisions about how to manage risk, including developing needed capabilities to deal with them.  The THIRA process helps communities to systematically identify capability targets and estimate resource requirements necessary to address the threats and hazards that pose risk to the community.  

The Preparedness Report ("PR")
A well-developed THIRA provides the foundation for a community to conduct a capability gap assessment to identify and analyze where capabilities are strong and where they can be improved.  Development of a resulting Preparedness Report (PR) helps to inform strategic decisions for preparedness activities and investment justifications.
Bonnie Hundrieser works with Emergency Managers and communities to use guiding principles of the THIRA process to build stronger emergency preparedness programs.
Experience
Bonnie Hundrieser has extensive experience in the development of local level, county, tribal, and regional jurisdictional Threat and Hazard Identification Risk Assessments (THIRA) and capability gap assessments.  THIRA and preparedness reports have been developed to meet and commonly exceed the requirements set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Bonnie's THIRA/PR project experience includes the following:
  • Twin Cities Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) THIRA/SPR (2015)
  • City of Minneapolis/Hennepin County Joint THIRA (2015)
  • Minneapolis Office of Emergency Management - OEM internal THIRA/PR (2016)
  • Minnesota HSEM Region 2 (NE Minnesota):  11 County, 2 Tribal, and Region 2 THIRA/SPRs (2014)