National Preparedness Month: September 2025
National Preparedness Month: September 2025
When disasters strike, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Emergency Management Hub offers timely local data on affected areas in the United States and its territories.
Explore key Census Bureau emergency management-related resources and data tools that support emergency planning, preparedness and recovery efforts, such as My Community Explorer, Community Resilience Estimates, OnTheMap for Emergency Management and Census Business Builder.
From American Counts, Preparing for the 2025 Hurricane Season:
“To assist communities, states and local governments with emergency event planning, we’re highlighting U.S. Census Bureau resources available to help local and state officials, emergency managers, event planners and others prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters. Our tools are designed to help communities gauge the potential effects of [disasters] on people and businesses in impacted areas.”
Key Stats
From My Community Explorer:
- Community Resilience Estimates (CRE). Provides an easy-to-understand metric for how socially vulnerable every neighborhood in the United States is to the impacts of disasters.
- American Community Survey (ACS). Selected ACS demographic and socioeconomic statistics at the state, county and census tract levels, including data on poverty, educational attainment and language spoken at home.
- County Business Patterns (CBP). Selected business statistics from the 2023 CBP at the state and county levels by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, including data on number of employer establishments, employment and average annual payroll per employee.
- Nonemployer Statistics (NES). Selected statistics on nonemployer businesses (those without paid employees) from the NES at the state and county levels by two-digit NAICS code, including data on the number of establishments and receipts.
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News and Updates on Disaster Situations
From census.gov Emergency Management Hub:
Disaster-Related Economic Statistics
Source: 2003-2025 Quarterly Services Survey (QSS).
Source: 2023 County Business Patterns (CBP).
- NAICS 6242, Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
- NAICS 62421, Community Food Services
- NAICS 62422, Community Housing Services
- NAICS 62423, Emergency and Other Relief Services
Source: 2022 Annual Business Survey (ABS).
Source: 1978-2022 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS).
Source: 2023 Nonemployer Statistics (NES).
Source: 2022 Economic Census.
Source: Experimental Data Products.
Population Statistics in Disaster-Prone Areas
Source: 1940-2020 Current Population Reports: Estimates and Projections (P25 Series).
