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title: "Assessing Your Risk: Descriptor for Risk Likelihood"
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##### Training-led Implementation Series
# Assessing Your Risk: Descriptor for Risk Likelihood
This blog explains "Risk Likelihood" as part of the Risk Analysis and Review phase.
It is meant to assist participants to have an understanding of this concept during their respective RAR assignments.
[Moh Heng Goh](https://blog.bcm-institute.org/bcm-planning-methodology/author/moh-heng-goh) Dec 5, 2021
### [](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/065689b0-d471-49e6-9981-ad108771ca1a)[](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/d2bd24a1-a102-4c8f-8959-b30d00d6a017)Descriptor for Risk Likelihood
In the BCM Institute, this phase in the planning methodology, when applied to Business Continuity (BC), is "Risk Analysis and Review."
[](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/881ea426-a0b1-45f3-b6eb-b57e0e9a870f)While, when it is applied to the Crisis Management (CM) and Crisis Communication (CC) planning process, it is called "**Crisis Risk Assessment"** and for IT Disaster Recovery, it is called "IT RAR."
When you are going in-depth into the various disciplines of BCM, CM, CC and ITDR.
This blog explains "Risk Likelihood". It is meant to assist participants in understanding this concept during their respective RAR assignments.
| #### **Risk Likelihood** |
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The probability of the threat occurring. This is relative to the organisation’s operating environment and rated on a scale of 1 to 5. Each scale has a descriptor.
- 1 = Very Low
- 2 = Low
- 3 = Medium
- 4 = High
- 5 = Very High
Risk Likelihood scoring scale follows a 1 (Very Low or Rare) to 5 (Very High or Almost Certain) scale.
The detailed likelihood breakdown is shown below.
[](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/c73b3444-7399-418d-868d-c0e062cc21e5)
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