{"id":774322,"date":"2026-08-13T06:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=774322"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:45:59","slug":"gis-helps-communities-spot-infrastructure-risk-before-it-cascades","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/gis-helps-communities-spot-infrastructure-risk-before-it-cascades","title":{"rendered":"Before the Break: How GIS Helps Cities Spot Infrastructure Risk Before It Cascades"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478472],"esri_blog_department":[478202,478212],"class_list":["post-774322","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","esri-blog-category-resilience","esri_blog_department-infrastructure","esri_blog_department-resilience"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"From stormwater planning in LA County to cyber recovery in Durham, GIS lets communities catch infrastructure risk before it cascades.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three mapping projects illustrate how researchers and urban planners are innovating to protect essential city infrastructure networks from extreme weather and cyberattacks.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Urban planners across the US are using GIS maps and models to understand infrastructure vulnerabilities, prevent service disruptions, and prioritize investments.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>LA County manages stormwater projects to ensure natural and built solutions work together.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Durham, North Carolina takes a cloud approach to cybersecurity to protect vital networks.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"As US cities and counties confront an increasingly complex scope of work\u2014from disruptive weather events to aging infrastructure\u2014planners need quick and precise data for decision-making. When they can see this data on a map, they can design and build for resilience.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s an approach that\u2019s taking hold across the country, powered by maps made with geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS maps are helping leaders and planners see hidden risks and opportunities within critical networks\u2014from roads and housing to energy, water, and IT systems.\r\n<h3><b>Disaster Preparedness in Houston and Beyond<\/b><\/h3>\r\nWhen Hurricane Beryl hit Houston in 2024, that single event sent ripples across the region. Power outages caused compounding disruptions, darkening homes and halting water systems as well as some hospital operations and communications."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Getting Started: Laying the Groundwork <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For planners ready to move from vision to action, location intelligence makes the path forward visible. Use geospatial data to illuminate vulnerabilities, engage communities to shape priorities, and align every decision with long-term value. Resilient infrastructure adapts, endures, and serves the people who depend on it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conduct Vulnerability Assessments:<\/strong>\u00a0Map critical infrastructure assets\u2014power, water, transit, communications\u2014against current and projected hazard exposure. Use GIS to identify where failure risk is highest and where investment will have the greatest protective impact.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Use Forward-Looking Data:<\/strong> Layer climate projections, demographic shifts, and land-use change data into spatial models. Determine how risk will evolve over time, ensuring infrastructure decisions are designed for future conditions, not past ones.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Engage Stakeholders Early:<\/strong>\u00a0Use interactive mapping tools to bring communities, businesses, and regional partners into the planning process\u2014making location-based tradeoffs visible and co-creating solutions grounded in local knowledge.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Align Funding with Resilience Goals:<\/strong> Spatial analysis documents vulnerability and quantifies risk in ways that satisfy federal, state, and private funders\u2014making the case for investment based on evidence.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Update Standards and Codes: <\/strong>GIS-based monitoring of the performance of existing infrastructure under stress conditions generates the evidence needed to update building codes, zoning laws, and design standards to match emerging risks, such as response to more extreme storms or heat.<\/p>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Today, Houston planners and emergency managers can map and model critical networks to anticipate cascading failures and prioritize investments for the greatest impact. Aiding the effort is nonprofit organization MITRE and its nationwide mapping and research initiative known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/mitre-maps-americas-hidden-infrastructure-vulnerabilities\">Project Homeland<\/a>. With six federally funded research and development centers nationally, MITRE partners with government agencies and private companies.\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than viewing power grids, water treatment plants, hospitals, and emergency services as isolated entities, planners can look to GIS maps and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/data-management\/what-is-a-knowledge-graph\">spatial knowledge graphs<\/a> to understand how individual systems affect one another. They can quickly uncover the most critical nodes in a network\u2014areas susceptible to triggering widespread disruptions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mixing Green and Gray Infrastructure in Los Angeles County<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While many communities are developing strategies for shoring up aging infrastructure, Los Angeles County recognized that resilience would require a new paradigm.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerful storms bring an average of 15 inches of rain per year to the otherwise drought-prone Los Angeles area. Planners wanted to capture some of that water to meet community needs instead of letting billions of gallons wash into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/la-county-maps-safe-clean-water-program\">Safe, Clean Water Program<\/a> uses GIS maps to track and manage hundreds of projects designed to capture rainwater. This includes green infrastructure such as infiltration basins, rain gardens, bioswales, and wetlands as natural ways to collect and filter water. The methods also reduce urban flooding, restore wildlife habitats, and create healthier public spaces.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[744002,774325,743972,767942]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LA\u2019s plan combines these natural solutions with built systems. Gray infrastructure, like concrete and steel storm drains and underground cisterns, help shore up network reliability and capacity during peak use. Together, natural and engineered infrastructure create a dynamic network that supports neighborhood revitalization and makes places more livable.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using GIS to manage, report, and track stormwater projects, county analysts can ensure equitable attention across the service area and prioritize based on need. They can also measure the performance of each system.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through its approach to infrastructure development, LA County highlights critical pillars of smart growth: equity, environmental stewardship, and flexibility and redundancy built into designs.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[466392,590822,466272]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><strong>Building Cyber Resilience in North Carolina<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cyberattack in Durham, North Carolina, in 2020 inspired a strategy for modernization within the city\u2019s regional transportation planning organization. The attack took critical systems offline, including applications essential for transportation planning and coordination.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disruption underscored a pressing reality: Resilience must extend beyond physical assets to include the digital systems that keep cities running. The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization decided to migrate its tools for managing infrastructure networks to a secure, cloud-based GIS environment. The change supported recovery from the attack and delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/after-cyberattack-transportation-organization-recovers-using-cloud-based-gis\">a more resilient technology foundation<\/a>. Now the agency has a full-system backup, making future data recoveries less challenging.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[277412,444152,444162]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"For the city, cloud-based GIS tools also remove the burden of maintaining servers, managing security patches, and safeguarding vital backup files. Planners and analysts can spend more time getting insights from their data with the additional protection over system security. These include automated backups, scalable security, and built-in disaster recovery to reduce the risk of future disruptions and ensure continuity for critical planning functions.\r\n\r\nRegional agency partners have also integrated into the cloud environment so they can access insights and gain spatial awareness without friction.\r\n\r\nWhat started as a cybersecurity crisis evolved into a more resilient IT infrastructure network strong enough to withstand changing conditions.\r\n<h3><b>Built to Last<\/b><\/h3>\r\nFor many years, urban planners have had to work from incomplete pictures\u2014because of siloed data, outdated maps, and systems that couldn\u2019t speak to each other. They\u2019ve had to make decisions without complete context. Service or safety gaps would remain invisible until something happened\u2014a storm hit, a pipe failed, a cyberattack exposed a fragile operation.\r\n\r\nThat reality is changing with advances in GIS technology.\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nGIS knits together data on terrain, systems, networks, and social fabric so cities and counties can uncover vulnerabilities. Planners can see and act before it\u2019s too late. They can trace how a flooding would affect a hospital\u2019s backup power supply. They can see where environmental risk and economic hardship converge in the same neighborhood because of inequitable development. And now they can predict where a cyberattack could impact an energy network. This is the modern approach, using location intelligence to design\u2014mitigation and recovery measures before a crisis.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nLearn more about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/emergency-management\/solutions\/disaster-resilience\">GIS helps communities prepare and adapt by mapping and analyzing hazards and human vulnerabilities<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Characteristics of a Resilient City or County<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Robust Infrastructure: <\/strong>Spatial analysis identifies single points of failure within power, water, and transit networks before a disruption strikes, enabling targeted investments where risk of cascading failures is highest.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Strong Governance and Planning: <\/strong>Hazard mapping layers climate projections, demographic data, and land-use patterns. This gives decision-makers a shared, location-based view of risk\u2014turning policy from reactive to anticipatory.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Economic Diversity: <\/strong>GIS-based economic mapping reveals which industries and supply chains are geographically clustered. Knowing this allows planners to introduce diversification strategies that strengthen local self-sufficiency.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Social Cohesion and Equity: <\/strong>Overlaying environmental hazard data with socioeconomic indicators can identify where vulnerable populations face compounding risks. This helps to ensure that investments reach the communities that need them most.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Environmental Stewardship: <\/strong>Spatial modeling measures the performance of green infrastructure\u2014wetlands, urban forests, bioswales\u2014against flood risk and heat exposure. With this information, analysts have a reliable way to determine where nature delivers the greatest protective value.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Emergency Preparedness: <\/strong>Real-time GIS integration combined with sensor networks and early warning systems gives emergency managers a live operational picture, compressing the time between detection and coordinated response.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Technological Integration: <\/strong>Cloud-based GIS environments provide enterprise-grade security, automated backups, and cross-agency data sharing\u2014shifting planners' attention from maintaining systems to acting on what those systems reveal.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Adaptive Capacity: <\/strong>Continuous monitoring through GIS dashboards creates visibility for understanding how infrastructure networks perform under stress. A feedback loop such as this can facilitate smarter design standards and faster regulatory updates.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Does GIS Help Cities Prevent Cascading Infrastructure Failures?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From stormwater planning in LA County to cyber recovery in Durham, GIS lets communities catch infrastructure risk before it cascades.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/gis-helps-communities-spot-infrastructure-risk-before-it-cascades\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Does GIS Help 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