FEMA's annual survey of how American households actually prepare for disasters — every available year, 2017 through 2024, archived here as complete data files, codebooks, summaries and questionnaires you can download.
Every year FEMA fields the National Household Survey — a nationally representative survey of American adults about how they actually prepare for disasters: whether they have a plan, how many days of supplies and water they keep, whether they’ve signed up for alerts, which hazards they worry about, and what gets in the way. It is the closest thing there is to a national report card on household readiness, and it’s the dataset behind our Preparedness Landscape tool, where you can explore the results by Census region, division and rural/urban without touching a spreadsheet.
I’ve collected the complete run here so you don’t have to chase down government links that move or break. Each year’s full release is bundled as a single ZIP, and the individual pieces — the microdata, the codebook that decodes it, the public summary, the methodology, and the survey instrument itself — are linked separately so you can grab just what you need. Everything is hosted on our own servers; nothing here phones home to a third party.
On the data. FEMA’s data are a work of the U.S. Government and therefore in the public domain. Per FEMA’s standard notice, the Federal Government cannot vouch for the data or any analyses derived from it after it has been retrieved from FEMA. The surveys are also preserved independently at the University of Michigan’s DataLumos/ICPSR archive under DOI 10.3886/E218642V1. The survey changed over the years — questions were added, dropped and reworded, and the file formats differ — so the years are not perfectly comparable; read each year’s codebook before drawing a trend.
A note on recent years. FEMA published a results report for the 2024 survey but has not released its microdata; the 2024 entry below is that report. Newest first.
