HEAT allows citizens of Hillsborough County to locate critical facilities in relation to their residence. These critical facilities include: Hospitals, fire stations, evacuation shelters, and sandbag locations.

If you wish to locate an address on the map, you must use the address matching tool. This tool will allow you to locate address or intersections.

You must first locate and click on this button to locate an address

It is located on this portion of your screen in the Toolbar

You will see a form on the bottom portion of your screen like the following.

First you must select the layer. Select the parcel layer.

Enter your address in the "Street" field. When locating address, leave the field marked "Cross Street" blank. Then click on the Locate button. You will then see a blue hyperlinked number representing your address. If multiple addresses appear, click on the link which has the higher score.

Zoom in to the selected parcel then click this button in the toolbar to select the parcel. Click inside your parcel. You should see a yellow line highlighting your parcel.

Then use your button to enter the emergency facility to include a buffer around the parcel and a distance around the selected parcel to find the facilities. The unit of measurement is miles. Then click on the create buffer button. Click on the Display Attributes box to see the address of the emergency facility.

If you wish to get routing information to any evacuation layer, go to find directions or select the route button from the main page.

Again, you can use your navigation tools to move around the map