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The Hurricane Evacuation Study (HES) is conducted by FEMA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, and your state emergency management agency. This study can take several years to complete and is comprised of the following six separate analyses:
The results from this study include storm surge analyses and evacuation requirements for hurricanes of different intensities and coming from different directions. Emergency planners use the information in the HES to devise checklists of steps to take during a hurricane. Decision makers, following these checklists, can decide what to do when certain meteorological conditions are met, based mostly on information from the NHC and local Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs). |