Disaster Recovery
Empower your disaster recovery work with tools that increase your resilience.
Forerunner makes it easier to capture flood-related damages on every property and to provide resources to residents when it matters most. Our software helps you link post-disaster efforts to blue-sky work, so that you can leverage recovery data to drive resilience for your whole community.
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Respond quickly and effectively to disasters.
Use Forerunner to mobilize quickly after disasters. You can document damages in the field, provide timely information to residents, and expedite recovery. Our geospatial platform also supports reporting, with capabilities to upload post-disaster imagery and export data.
Collect Crucial Information
Gather post-disaster damage data and notes seamlessly, and record them in one place.
Collaborate Effectively
Ensure that you’re not duplicating work across teams with software that updates in real-time.
Close the Data Loop
Mobilize your post-disaster metrics for day-to-day permitting and resident outreach.
Generate Reports
Export your data in easy-to-use formats for better internal and external reporting.
Features for Disaster Recovery
Preliminary Damage Assessments to help you gather important data after a disaster.
Forerunner’s Preliminary Damage Assessment feature helps you collect critical information on damage quickly after disasters, allowing you to respond to residents faster and save on crucial response time.
Assess property damages and generate Substantial Damage Estimates quickly.
Forerunner’s substantial damage tool combines FEMA's SDE logic with property-level data to help communities complete substantial damage assessments quicker and more easily.
SI/SD tracking to help enforce regulations as residents rebuild.
Forerunner tracks all relevant SI/SD data and makes it easy to document damages when you are out in the field. We also send a notification when projects are close to the cumulative threshold, informing when you need to reach out to property owners.
Read our SI/SD whitepaperGeospatial views of damages and compliance issues.
Forerunner’s geospatial platform allows you to view damaged properties and potential compliance warnings all in one place. Warnings can be customized to meet the specific needs and regulatory nuances of your community.
Important post-disaster documents and images organized in one place.
Forerunner's document management features centralize post-disaster documents and images by property, helping your team make more informed decisions. The flexibility of our software allows you to hide more sensitive data from the public view if you choose to do so.
Mobile app for Forerunner access while out in the field.
Forerunner's app enables your team to upload crucial information while performing inspections. The data collected using the app in the field automatically syncs to the desktop version at your office, improving collaboration and saving time. Offline mode also supports usage in low or no-service areas, which is particularly helpful post-disaster.
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