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Community Resilience Assessment Methodology
Purpose
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Community Resilience Assessment Methodology team helps communities and researchers by providing methods and tools for the assessment of resilience at the community-scale.
The goal of this research is to develop a science-basis for community resilience assessment methodologies that can be applied to new and existing indicator frameworks for assessing baseline resilience and changes in resilience over time. See Full Project Description.
Objective
To develop and disseminate a database of county level community resilience indicators, an inventory and analysis of published frameworks and indicators, and scientifically grounded guidance necessary to quantitatively measure community resilience over time for the nation, based on validated community resilience indicators that account for meaningful aspects of physical, social, and economic systems.
Products
Indicator Inventory
The Inventory takes the form of a database which contains 56 existing quantitative resilience frameworks, indicators, and measures that have been evaluated and catalogued according to a standardized methodology.
- 3298 indicators and 7165 measures
The Inventory is accompanied by two items:
- An annotated bibliography that outlines each framework in terms of goals and scope of the framework or assessment method, how the framework or assessment method was developed, and who created the tool.
- A data article which describes the data associated with each framework and presents summary descriptive statistics for the Inventory.
Indicator Science Guidance
This technical subseries documents the resilience indicator development methodologies used by the NIST Community Resilience Program and highlights the best practices for the development, selection, testing, and validation of resilience indicators.
NIST SP 2300: Resilience Indicator Development and Best Practices
TraCR
The Tracking Community Resilience (TraCR) database is a tool for developing and testing analytical methods for computing county-level indicators for community resilience. The database will be provided as a public tool for tracking indicators over time for a variety of state and local needs. The public version of the TraCR database will be released through the NIST Public Data Repository in FY 2025 and will consist of a data file and supporting documentation. The team plans to release versions that expand the number of indicators and years for which the data are available. To date, TraCR contains data for all 3230 counties (or county equivalents) in the contiguous US, as well as Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Related Publications & Links
- Project Description
- Inventory of Community Resilience Indicators & Assessment Frameworks
- A Review of Community Resilience Frameworks and Assessment Tools: An Annotated Bibliography
- An Analysis of an Inventory of Community Resilience Frameworks
- Validating Commonly Used Indicators for Community Resilience Measurement
- NIST SP 2300: Resilience Indicator Development and Best Practices
Contacts
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(301) 975-4953