From Chaos to Coordination: Utilizing the Census Bureau’s Emergency Management Hub

Description

The U.S. Census Bureau produces timely local data on disasters.census.gov that are critical to emergency planning, preparedness, and recovery efforts. This presentation will explore the Census’s Emergency Management Hub. A central source of information about disaster areas through insightful news stories, data products, and links to related sites and resources on Air Quality, Extreme Heat, Floods, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Pandemics & Wildfires. We will navigate data tools with mapping interfaces to understand select demographics & business, to help users identify potentially affected areas of their state, county, and community as well as current and past disaster impacted areas. 

Presenter: Kimberly Davis      

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET

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