The analysis is conducted in three typical, densely populated residential neighborhoods, each in a different city: the Jabalya refugee camp, North of Gaza City; the city-center of Tel Aviv; the West Village in New York City; and the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The cities and sites are chosen arbitrarily and are presented here as examples of a densely populated urban environment. Each of these sites is overlaid with an ellipse delimiting the maximal Coverage Areas of the M825 WP projectile.

At this scale of analysis, the distribution of wedges within the Coverage Area itself can be thought of as random: every point in the Coverage Area could potentially be hit by a wedge, so the entire area is considered affected by the WP wedges, and the risk homogeneously distributed within the Coverage Area.

All buildings within the ellipse are considered affected structures: they are identified by land use and counted. Additionally, an estimate is made of the population within the Coverage Area, as an indicator of the total civilian exposure in each scenario.