This cookbook will show how to create a custom situational awareness map for a Director's Brief, tailored to the disaster type. A flood, a wildfire, a hurricane, and a tornado outbreak each call for different layers, different symbology, and a different focus — and the same generic map serves none of them well. The recipe will cover choosing the right base layers in ArcGIS Online (AGOL), adding the hazard-specific layers that matter for the event, and styling the result so a disaster relief operation (DRO) director can read the situation at a glance. It builds directly on the zone layer from Cookbook 01.

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