National Risk Index

The National Risk Index (NRI) is an online tool to help illustrate the nation's communities most at risk of natural hazards. It incorporates three datasets (SoVI, BRIC, and Expected Annual Loss) to determine an overall risk percentage as well as risk percentages for 18 of the USA's most common natural hazards.

FEMA Hazus Program

This application provides standardized tools and data for estimating risk from earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes. Hazus software is distributed as a GIS-based desktop application with a growing collection of simplified open-source tools. Risk assessment resources from the Hazus program are always freely available and transparently developed.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

This application visualizes the 2018 overall Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) for U.S. counties. The SVI uses U.S. Census data to determine the social vulnerability of every county and tract, based on 15 social factors, including poverty, lack of vehicle access, and crowded housing.

NOAA Climate Monitoring Catalog

A collection of summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale along with other products, tools, documents, and other materials to help you navigate NCEI data and information.

Census Poverty Status Viewer

The Census Poverty Status Viewer was developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to support the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration. The application includes poverty data for the population for whom poverty status is determined from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Census Advancing Equity with Data

The Census Bureau is committed to producing data that depict an accurate portrait of America, including its underserved communities. Some of our data equity services include: Demographic Data, Data Tools, Public Assistance Program Metrics, Diversity Measurement, Data Education.

View the Census Community Resilience Estimate Data.

 NEW! Census: My Community Explorer

Using the Select tool and Community Context Panel, emergency management officials and other organizations can see information for a region of counties or a state that are being potentially impacted by incidents like wildfires or hurricanes. Using the community profiles, organizations can identify potentially underserved communities within the region.  They can also use the site to do "what if" planning for possible future events.

 FEMA Community Resilience Challenge Index (CRCI)

This application visualizes the FEMA CRCI for U.S. counties. The FEMA CRCI combines the 22 indicators commonly used across multiple peer reviewed research on community resilience and social vulnerability, including poverty, lack of vehicle access, and healthcare capacity. The FEMA CRCI is binned by percentile and also available for U.S. Census tracts. Both data layers are updated annually. In addition to the CRCI, data for each of the 22 underlying indicators is available in the Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). FEMA CRCI is also available on the Esri Living Atlas. 

More details on these indicators and the research process can be found in the FEMA CRCI Storymap.

New! Community Disaster Resilience Zones

Community Disaster Resilience Zones aim to build and strengthen community resilience across the nation by driving federal, public, and private resources to the most at-risk and in-need communities.

The Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act uses FEMA’s National Risk Index to identify the most at-risk and in-need communities to identify resilience zones. Designated zones will be prioritized for targeted federal support, such as increased cost-share for resilience and mitigation projects, lessening the financial burden on communities to perform resilience-related activities. September 6, 2023, FEMA announced the initial 483 designations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. A second designation for tribal lands and territories will be in Fall 2023.

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation

The Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) Portal aggregates currently available federal datasets to create a climate risk information tool and includes grant finance opportunities. It offers a community-focused, user-friendly model that provides high level trend information for state, local, tribal, and territorial communities. View real-time maps showing where climate-related hazards are occurring today.

Climate Risk and Resilience Portal

The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) is a new developing climate science modeling tool that empowers individuals, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and organizations to examine simulated future conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils. The ClimRR Data Explorer allows users to view over 100 different climate visualizations in an interactive map and the ClimRR Report Generator provides users with a snapshot of climate projections at a chosen point on a map. Additional hazards will be added over the next year.

BRIC Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities

The Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) describes the differences in community resilience among counties within the state and within the nation through a comparative community resilience score. BRIC is comprised of six broad categories of community disaster resilience. Used as an initial baseline for monitoring existing attributes of resilience to natural hazards, BRIC can be used to compare places to one another, to determine the specific drivers of resilience for counties, and to monitor improvements in resilience over time.

RAPT Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool

The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) is a free GIS web map that allows federal, state, local, tribal and territorial emergency managers and other community leaders to examine the interplay of census data, infrastructure locations, and hazards, including real-time weather forecasts, historic disasters and estimated annualized frequency of hazard risk.

View the Community Resilience Indicator Analysis (CRIA), the underlying Indicator Analysis in RAPT.  

Justice40 Tracts May 2022

Tracts have been identified as disadvantaged across eight different categories:

• Climate change
• Clean energy and energy efficiency
• Clean transit
• Affordable and sustainable housing
• Reduction and remediation of legacy pollution
• Critical clean water and wastewater infrastructure
• Health burdens
• Training and workplace development

More information about the Feature Layer is available here.

Guidance on Risk, Resilience, and Vulnerability Indices

National Alliance for Public Safety (NAPSG) GIS Foundation, through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, and with URISA's Community Resilience Task Force, studied and curated available and emerging risk, resilience, and vulnerability indices to help the emergency management community match business needs with specific indices. The site includes descriptions, comparisons, key links and guidance regarding which indices or tool to employ to meet your needs.