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Community Resilience

Community resilience is the ability of a community to prepare for anticipated natural hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions.

As a consequence reduction risk component of the National Risk Index, a Community Resilience score and rating represent the relative level of a community’s resilience compared to all other communities at the same level. A Community Resilience score is inversely proportional to a community’s risk. A higher Community Resilience score results in a lower Risk Index score.

A map of the United States colored by Community Resilience ratings. For full results, see the National Risk Index Map webpage.

Source Data

University of South Carolina's Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI)’s Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (HVRI BRIC)

For more information on the creation of the HVRI BRIC, please refer to HVRI's resources or the paper published by Cutter, Ash, and Emrich, 2014.

For comprehensive details about Community Resilience in the Risk Index, see the National Risk Index Technical Documentation.

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