Your community’s resilience platform
Manage climate risk and increase resilience in a rapidly changing world.
Islamorada
Florida
Rumson
New Jersey
Oceanport
New Jersey
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Sea Isle City
New Jersey
South Pasadena
Florida
Santa Barbara County
California
Deer Park
Texas
Zachary
Louisiana
FDEM
Florida
St John the Baptist Parish
Louisiana
Alexandria
Virginia
Terrebone Parish
Louisiana
Concord
California
Norfolk
Virginia
Georgetown
South Carolina
Gretna
Louisiana
Peterborough
New Hampshire
Escambia County
Florida
Bellaire
Texas
Calvert County
Maryland
Barnegat
New Jersey
Wilson County
Tennessee
Manasquan
New Jersey
Key West
Florida
West Palm Beach
Florida
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Naples
Florida
Miami
Florida
Fort Pierce
Florida
Tampa
Florida
Santa Rosa County
Florida
Palm Beach County
Florida
Orting
Washington
Ocean Township
New Jersey
Hoboken
New Jersey
Lincoln Park
New Jersey
Keansburg
New Jersey
Jefferson Parish
Louisiana
Hialeah
Florida
Hazlet
New Jersey
Harris County
Texas
Georgetown County
South Carolina
Franklin County
Florida
Longport
New Jersey
Destin
Florida
Covington
LA
Clearwater
Florida
Cape May
New Jersey
Brick
New Jersey
Bay Head
New Jersey
Kitty Hawk
North Carolina
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Coral Gables
Florida
Islamorada
Florida
Rumson
New Jersey
Oceanport
New Jersey
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Sea Isle City
New Jersey
South Pasadena
Florida
Santa Barbara County
California
Deer Park
Texas
Zachary
Louisiana
FDEM
Florida
St John the Baptist Parish
Louisiana
Alexandria
Virginia
Terrebone Parish
Louisiana
Concord
California
Norfolk
Virginia
Georgetown
South Carolina
Gretna
Louisiana
Peterborough
New Hampshire
Escambia County
Florida
Bellaire
Texas
Calvert County
Maryland
Barnegat
New Jersey
Wilson County
Tennessee
Manasquan
New Jersey
Key West
Florida
West Palm Beach
Florida
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Naples
Florida
Miami
Florida
Fort Pierce
Florida
Tampa
Florida
Santa Rosa County
Florida
Palm Beach County
Florida
Orting
Washington
Ocean Township
New Jersey
Hoboken
New Jersey
Lincoln Park
New Jersey
Keansburg
New Jersey
Jefferson Parish
Louisiana
Hialeah
Florida
Hazlet
New Jersey
Harris County
Texas
Georgetown County
South Carolina
Franklin County
Florida
Longport
New Jersey
Destin
Florida
Covington
LA
Clearwater
Florida
Cape May
New Jersey
Brick
New Jersey
Bay Head
New Jersey
Kitty Hawk
North Carolina
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Coral Gables
Florida
One geospatial platform. Many solutions.
All-hazards management
Protect your community with tools for risk assessment, disaster response, and mitigation planning—all in one platform.
Code enforcement
Streamline code enforcement and building safety workflows. Centralize compliance tracking, inspections, and communication to improve building safety and ensure adherence to regulations.
Emergency management
Respond quickly and effectively to disasters. Capture damages, coordinate efforts, and expedite recovery with tools designed to enhance disaster preparedness and streamline response activities.
Assets & infrastructure
Manage community-wide assets and infrastructure. Track and maintain critical systems like stormwater, roads, projects, and more.
Built for dynamic governments
As governments face increasingly complex challenges, the need to address whole-community resilience is growing. Forerunner equips you with the tools to tackle today's problems with an eye toward tomorrow.
Comprehensive resilience tools for thriving communities
Geospatial data
Visualize and explore your community’s critical data in one intuitive interface, enabling better analysis and decision-making.
Configurable tables
Organize and customize data tables to match your workflows, making it easier to track, sort, and manage essential information.
Workflow consolidation
Streamline processes by integrating multiple workflows into a single, cohesive system to increase efficiency and reduce redundancies.
Intelligent file management
Organize files and accelerate document reviews with automated field extraction and smart alerts, helping you quickly identity critical details and potential issues.
Public communication
Build trust and transparency with tools that allow you to share timely, accessible updates with your community.
Mobile field support
Stay connected in the field with seamless access to data, workflows, and tools on any device, empowering on-the-go decision making.
"My favorite feature is the SI/SD tracker. Before Forerunner, we used an Excel spreadsheet. Now, I can input SI/SD data into Forerunner as I review permits. It makes tracking so much easier and the information is accessible to the public."
Zoe Parks
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Floodplain and Community Rating System (CRS) coordinator, Key West, FL
“Forerunner is very user friendly. If your EM director needs it, you can export to a spreadsheet daily and it automatically shows what's been assessed and what needs to be done. It’s easy to keep everyone aware of things as they are happening.”
Steven Elliott
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Building Official, Georgetown County, SC
“Forerunner is very user friendly. If your EM director needs it, you can export to a spreadsheet daily and it automatically shows what's been assessed and what needs to be done. It’s easy to keep everyone aware of things as they are happening.”
Steven Elliott
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Building Official, Georgetown County, SC
"Forerunner is revolutionary for this office."
Christopher Taormina
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Floodplain Administrator/Director of Engineering and Development Zoning Officer, Lincoln Park, NJ
“Forerunner's mapping capabilities provide a full picture of potential property vulnerabilities. Forerunner takes some of the burden off of us. We’re a small community and it saves us a lot of work and time - it makes our life easier.”
Ronald Marney
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Floodplain Administrator, Calvert County, MD
"What they created is so awesome and they keep making it better."
Noell Bell
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Chief Building Official, Destin, FL
"Forerunner's capabilities are continually increasing."
Jacquelyn Anderson
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Floodplain Manager, Palm Beach County, FL
"A bunch of us have been using it and the tool is VERY user friendly from a damage assessment standpoint. The tool is so easy to use. It’s working really well for us."
Tambre Lee
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Building Official, Santa Rosa County, FL
"Being able to provide thorough information takes away the guessing, and this helps staff concentrate on other things immediately following a disaster."
Pamela Langford, CFM
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Director of Development Services, Port Arthur, TX
"I promote Forerunner every chance I get, to residents, developers, and others. I'm always using this thing. I've deleted everything else that I used to use because everything that I need is in Forerunner. It has made mine and the whole staff's lives easier."
Dave Jennings
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Plan Review & Prof. Code Services, Tampa FL
"By partnering with Forerunner, you are making one of the BEST decisions."
Edward Streidl
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Construction Code Enforcement / Zoning Officer, Keansburg, NJ
"Great program, get answers very fast, takes all the hassle of looking up maps away."
Pat J. Naticchione
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Construction Official, Egg Harbor, NJ
"Best software investment we made."
Marvin Benoit
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Building Official, Orange, TX
"Best software investment we made."
Marvin Benoit
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Building Official, Orange, TX
"Simple to use and makes it easy to find the information you need."
Building Official
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Orting, WA
"All of our flood information is stored automatically, in one central location now. It's a game changer."
Engineering Team
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Brick, NJ
"By partnering with Forerunner you are making one of the BEST decisions in records management."
Edward Streidl
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Construction Code Enforcement / Zoning Officer, Keansburg, NJ
"Forerunner is the missing link in the permitting process. The team is trained in floodplain management, understands the permitting process, and listens to feedback - their capabilities are continually expanding. We absolutely love and highly recommend Forerunner!"
Angela Lolley
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Floodplain Administrator, Franklin County, FL
"The amount of phone calls has gone down tremendously since launching the website."
Steven Elliott
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Building Official, Georgetown County, SC
"Forerunner helps streamline our flood risk management efforts and provide potentially life- and property-saving information to our residents. It has the added benefit of helping improve our CRS score, which has a direct impact on flood insurance rates."
Steven Elliott
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Building Official, Georgetown County, SC
"Kitty Hawk has weathered our fair share of storms over the years. We are focused on doing whatever we can to protect our community for the future – which includes tapping into new technologies to help us become more effective in our work."
Rob Testerman
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Director of Planning and Inspections, Kitty Hawk, NC
"Local realtors are always looking for property information quickly. Sharing the public website with them reduces call volume to our office and gives them everything they need related to flood risk. They picked it up quickly—they really like it."
Chris Brown, CFM, CPO
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Building Official/Floodplain Administrator, Covington, LA
"We can just export Elevation Certificates to a spreadsheet, which removes so many extra little steps that held us back. It significantly speeds things up, and also reduces errors in the review process. In our last EC review, we got a 98% after the first review!"
Maggie Talley
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Director of Floodplain Management and Hazard Mitigation, Jefferson Parish, LA
"Being able to provide thorough information takes away the guessing, and this helps staff concentrate on other things immediately following a disaster."
Pamela Langford, CFM
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Director of Development Services, Port Arthur, TX
"The last CRS visit we had, before Forerunner, it took us three tries to pass the minimum threshold of Elevation Certificate accuracy. This time, we passed on the first try! The software has been a blessing."
Darrell Hahn
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Manager of Permit Operations, Harris County, TX
"The Forerunner software platform has proven to be an exceptional value for our community. Furthermore, the Forerunner team's management and staff are a pleasure to collaborate with, making our experience even more rewarding."
Travis Meeks
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Assistant Manager Fire Protection, Public Infrastructure Department, Harris County, TX
"The Forerunner software platform has proven to be an exceptional value for our community. Furthermore, the Forerunner team's management and staff are a pleasure to collaborate with, making our experience even more rewarding."
Travis Meeks
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Assistant Manager Fire Protection, Public Infrastructure Department, Harris County, TX
"I'm really enjoying Forerunner. It's saving me a lot of headaches because it's just much more streamlined. I don't have to go to different Excel spreadsheets, everything is all right there!"
Susan Catapano-Moore, CFM, FPM
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CRS Coordinator, Long Branch, NJ
"I've submitted Elevation Certificates for annual review for many years and I always had to correct errors. Forerunner's EC Error Detection helped me, for the first time, pass my EC review on the first submission. THANK YOU Forerunner, a GREAT help in the CRS!"
Edward Streidl
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Construction Code Enforcement / Zoning Officer, Keansburg, NJ
"The Elevation Certificate Error Detection in Forerunner is now a very important part of our final reviews. It makes the annual recertification a little less cumbersome and it saves a lot of time."
Chris Brown, CFM, CPO
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Building Official/Floodplain Administrator, Covington, LA
"Tapping into Forerunner’s technology has enabled us to drive more efficiency in our day-to-day workflows and better manage our data."
Sarah Kessler
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CRS Coordinator and MS4 Coordinator, City of Clearwater, FL
"Your program is amazing—I love it. I upload something and in something like 20-30 minutes our reviewers can see the issues. It's the easiest program I've ever used."
Sherry Watkins
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Administrative Assistant, City of Clearwater, FL
"A bunch of us have been using it and the tool is VERY user friendly for damage assessments. The tool is so easy to use. It’s working really well for us."
Tambre Lee
,
Building Official, Santa Rosa County, FL
"I promote Forerunner every chance I get, to residents, developers, and others. I'm always using this thing. Everything that I need to look up is in Forerunner ... it has made mine and the whole staff's lives easier."
Dave Jennings
,
Plan Review & Prof. Code Services, Tampa, Florida
"It is so awesome and they keep making it better."
Noell Bell
,
Chief Building Official, Destin, FL
"Before Forerunner, our files were scattered in piles on our desks. With Forerunner, I can gather all the files and information we need efficiently. Whenever we approve a permit, we immediately enter the information in. This saves us a significant amount of time."
Lilibet Muniz
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Floodplain Manager and CRS Coordinator, Hialeah, FL
“Forerunner is the most innovative product that I work with. If you are a floodplain manager, it is a must.”
Susan Catapano-Moore, CFM, FPM
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CRS Coordinator, Hazlet, NJ
"I used to have to go to three or four systems to look up anything. I'd talk to someone on the phone about something as simple as finding their zone and it'd take me a half hour to find. With Forerunner, it takes just a few minutes. It's made my job 100 job times easier."
Louis 'Rico' Fischer, CFM
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Former Floodplain Administrator, Ocean Township, NJ
"Storms are more frequent and powerful. It's our goal to ensure our community is resilient. Partnering with Forerunner helps create greater efficiency and effectiveness in our work internally, and the public website empowers our residents to make informed decisions."
Louis 'Rico' Fischer, CFM
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Former Floodplain Administrator, Ocean Township, NJ
"Forerunner integrates all of our maps into a user-friendly interface, allowing our officials to better assist our homeowners and local professionals. It populates addresses better than any other program we have."
Jennifer Dowe
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Tax Assessor and Community Rating System (CRS) Coordinator, Lower Township, NJ
"I use Forerunner everyday, it is really amazing."
Chris Taormina
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Floodplain Administrator/Director of Engineering and Development Zoning Officer, Lincoln Park, NJ
"I don’t have to go to paper documents, I don’t have to go searching through files to get a full picture of what’s going on. I can see it on my computer, it’s right there."
Elissa Commins
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Floodplain Manager and co-CRS coordinator, Brick, NJ
"I can't tell you how awesome the Public Property Profiles are. They look so professional and residents can manipulate the data. Every time someone calls now, I say ‘just give me your email. I’ll show you all of the information,’ and I send them a Public Profile."
Elissa Commins
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Floodplain Manager and co-CRS coordinator, Brick, NJ
"When I first came to Bay Head the records were all over the place, there wasn't a central location. As soon as I saw Forerunner, it immediately got to my attention that this was a solution for us to draw all this information together."
Chris Parlow
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Borough Administrator, Bay Head, NJ
"Before Forerunner, information was dispersed all over the office. What used to take a few minutes now takes a few seconds. And to work digitally, rather than going through 4000+ property files is a huge time-saving. Forerunner brought us into the 21st Century."
Lou Belasco
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Former Floodplain Administrator & Deputy City Manager, Bay Head, NJ
Secure. Private. Accessible.
We’ve implemented industry-leading best practices to build our platform, ensuring that our partners can trust us to deliver the highest level of security and reliability.
Penetration testing
Regular, rigorous testing to evaluate system security and make sure we’re safeguarding partner data with the utmost care.
ADA compliance
Built with accessibility in mind to serve every member of your community.
