How the country actually prepares for disasters — readiness, supplies, and the threats people expect — from FEMA's National Household Survey. Pick an indicator to see how it varies across the U.S., then see where you stand against your own region.
State estimates come from small samples — several are only a few dozen respondents, so read them as rough signals, not precise figures.
“Which threat would have the biggest impact where you live?”
Ranked highest to lowest. The national average is shown in gold.
Share of households by how long they could stay home without resupply — the 3-day mark is the common baseline.
The same indicators, split by where people live. Selected indicator highlighted.
The County Threat Report ranks what your own area actually faces — computed from real source data, in twenty seconds.
Go localThis survey stops at the regional level. Area Recon maps the real hazards, infrastructure and population around your actual address.
Go to the sourceEvery year of the National Household Survey — complete data files, codebooks, summaries and questionnaires, 2017 through 2024, archived for download.
How ready your region is — from FEMA survey data.
A dashboard of how prepared households actually are across the country, by region.
This is survey data with a reporting lag and a floor on how fine-grained it can go (region, not neighborhood). It’s context for the big picture, not a live local reading.
