As soon as it was safe to enter the affected area, 30 damage assessment teams used Crisis Track’s mobile application to conduct 4,275 separate damage assessments in less than 4 days. Though initially based on FEMA’s Individual Assistance (IA) and Public Assistance (PA) data requirements, the damage assessments also met data requirements that the local governments needed for recovery. For instance:

• Building Departments collected data for FEMA IA and building-safety placarding for permitting.
• Resource Conservation (waste management) collected data for FEMA PA Category A debris estimates and mapped pickup locations/quantities to remove debris.
• Public Works and Open Space (parks) completed infrastructure damage estimates for FEMA PA Categories C and G that eventually fed into their work order management systems to perform repairs.

Because of the data’s value to department missions, its accuracy and completeness improved considerably from previous incidents—so much so that FEMA and the Colorado Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, both of which used Crisis Track to see real-time damage reports from the field, had little to validate. This allowed FEMA to quickly open Public Assistance grants for all FEMA work categories. As of March 2, 2022, $69 million in FEMA disaster assistance has been awarded to the Boulder County community.