National Preparedness Month: September 2026

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National Preparedness Month: September 2026

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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 to help communities gauge the potential impact on people and businesses.

Census Bureau emergency management-related resources and data tools support emergency planning, preparedness and recovery efforts. Explore My Community Explorer, Community Resilience Estimates, OnTheMap for Emergency Management and Census Business Builder.

Key Stats

From My Community Explorer:

  • Community Resilience Estimates (CRE). Provide 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). Includes selected demographic and socioeconomic statistics on subjects like poverty, educational attainment and language spoken at home at the state, county and census tract levels.
  • County Business Patterns (CBP). Includes selected business statistics from the 2023 CBP such as the number of employer establishments, employment rates and average annual payroll per employee at the state and county levels by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.
  • Nonemployer Statistics (NES). Includes selected statistics on nonemployer businesses (those without paid employees) from the NES like the number of establishments and receipts at the state and county levels by two-digit NAICS code.

     

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Disaster Data Tools

From census.gov Emergency Management Hub:

America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

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: Annual Business Survey (ABS).

Source: 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).

Social Statistics for Use in Disaster Response

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Page Last Revised - August 25, 2026