Question

What is THIRA? A. A comprehensive process for identifying threats and hazards along with their associated capabilities. B. A process designed to eliminate risk from natural, technological, and human-caused hazards and threats. C. A Federal risk analysis program that makes local, tribal, and State threat/hazard analyses unnecessary. D. A hazard identification process that all jurisdictions must use to qualify for assistance under the Stafford Ac

Answer 1

Answer: The answer is A- A comprehensive process for identifying threats and hazards along with their associated capabilities.

Explanation:

THIRA is short for Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. It is an all-hazard capability based assessment tool which includes a four (4)step common risk assessment that helps a community or jurisdiction to better understand its threats and hazard risk and estimating the capability requirements and also how the impacts may vary or differ according to time of occurrence, season or location.

THIRA process involves giving threats and hazards contexts of how they might unfold, the use of these threats or hazard contexts to identify impacts to th community using correct capabilities, estimating the impacts of these threats and hazards and looking across the estimated impact to the community in the context of each core capability.