ARIA, Automated Risk Intelligence Assessment, is SOAR Consulting Group's platform for producing a complete Community Risk Assessment from your department's own data. It follows the same section structure, scoring methodology, and editorial standard SOAR has applied across its manually produced CRAs for fire departments nationwide, delivered through an automated pipeline so your department receives the same depth of analysis in far less time and at a fraction of the cost of a traditionally produced assessment.
ARIA builds your CRA from several sources working together: the organizational profile and special hazards intake your department completes in this portal, your validated service area boundary, your department's own incident and records management system data, public census demographics for the population you serve, weather and natural hazard history for your jurisdiction, and a national incident benchmarking dataset, so your call volume, response times, and fire experience are evaluated against comparable departments rather than in isolation.
What Your CRA Covers
Organizational Profile, covering your department's history, governance, staffing, stations, and apparatus
Community Profile, covering the jurisdiction's geography, development, and economic base
Demographic Profile, covering the population served and the risk factors that shape it
Incident History and Response Profile, benchmarking your call volume and NFIRS-coded incident experience against comparable departments
Unique and Special Hazards, covering the facilities and features specific to your jurisdiction
Weather and Natural Hazards, covering jurisdiction-specific events and exposure
Risk Scoring and Prioritization, with a Community Risk Reduction focused summary and recommendations
The result arrives as a complete, fully formatted Word document, ready for your governing board, elected officials, and community. One thing it will not include is photographs, covered below.
Your CRA Does Not Include Images, Here's How to Add Them
Your completed Community Risk Assessment will arrive as a fully formatted Word document, complete with data analysis, charts, tables, and narrative for every section. It will not, however, include photographs. Images are one of the most effective ways to make a CRA visually engaging and easier for your governing board, elected officials, and community members to read, so we strongly encourage your department to build a small photo library before your CRA arrives and add images throughout the document once it's delivered.
Most departments already have many of these on hand, department social media accounts, prior annual reports, or a records/PIO folder are usually the fastest source. Below is a section-by-section list of the images that will complement your CRA best.
Organizational Profile
Front exterior of each fire station
Apparatus and equipment (engines, ladders, rescues, brush trucks, ambulances)
Personnel in dress uniform or at a department event
Personnel in action on fire scenes and other emergency responses
Inspections and fire prevention activity (commercial inspections, plan review, smoke alarm installations)
Community Profile
Recognizable community landmarks (downtown, courthouse, main street, waterfront, or other easily identified local scenery)
Local businesses and commercial corridors
Topography and land use characteristic of the service area (rural, coastal, mountainous, urban core)
Demographic Profile
Community members and public gatherings (community events, parades, farmers markets) that reflect the population served
Unique & Special Hazards
The specific hazard facilities or features discussed in that section (industrial sites, marine terminals, rail crossings, large event venues, and similar)
Weather & Natural Hazards
Storm damage, flooding, wildfire, or other weather-related event imagery specific to your jurisdiction, if available
Watch our short walkthrough on inserting and formatting images in your delivered Word document.
ARIA (Automated Risk Intelligence Assessment) turns your department's legacy incident data and public data sources into a complete, NFIRS-benchmarked Community Risk Assessment.
Built by SOAR Consulting Group for the fire service.
Create your department account
Account creation is free. You're only charged when you request a Community Risk Assessment.
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Your department
Department account overview
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Complete Your Department Setup
Two things feed the earliest sections of your Community Risk Assessment. Complete both, then request your CRA below.
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Organizational Profile
Governance, staffing, stations, apparatus, and service details for Section 1 of your CRA (Organizational History and Demographics).
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Unique & Special Hazards
This feeds Section 6 of your Community Risk Assessment. Download the intake template, take it to Operations, and ask the hard question: what buildings, occupancies, or geographic features in your service area keep you up at night? Twenty to thirty entries is the typical range. Upload the completed PDF below when you're ready.
Where your Community Risk Assessment stands right now.
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Organizational Profile Submitted
Your department's governance, staffing, stations, and service details are on file.
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CRA Requested
Your Community Risk Assessment has been queued for production.
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Data Collection & Analysis
Incident, census, and hazard data are being gathered and analyzed for your service area.
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Drafting Your Assessment
SOAR is drafting each section of your CRA, including your hazard analysis and risk matrix.
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Final Review
Your completed assessment is undergoing quality review before delivery.
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Delivered
Your CRA has been reviewed by a SOAR consultant and is available for delivery.
Your Community Risk Assessment has been reviewed by a SOAR consultant and is ready to download.
Have a Problem or Question?
Send a message to SOAR support. We'll follow up by email at the contact address on your account.
Organizational Profile
This feeds Section 1 of your Community Risk Assessment (Organizational History and Demographics). Your account details (staffing type, personnel count, station count, population served) are already on file — this screen only asks for what's new.
