Rockfall is a common hazard in mountainous regions within the United States and around the world. Effective management of these hazards requires both characterization of the hazard as it exists today and forecasting of how the hazard may evolve into the future. Traditional approaches for rockfall hazard characterization provide a relatively coarse categorization of relative hazard, and many methods based on in-field assessments are limited in terms of their accuracy. In this talk, techniques for rockfall hazard assessment using point-cloud-based monitoring are presented in the context of the literature, and practical recommendations for slope assessment are provided. Then preliminary efforts to develop evidence-based approaches for forecasting changes in hazard over time are presented.