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Resilience

Community resilience

What is Community Resilience?

Community resilience is the ability to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Activities, such as disaster preparedness—which includes prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery—are key steps to resilience. Program Page.

When Disaster Strikes, Will Your Community Be Prepared? — If a disaster hits your community, will you be prepared? Are your leaders asking the right questions and taking the right steps to make sure your community could recover quickly and completely? Learn more about the flexible and adaptable resources from NIST's Community Resilience program that will help put your community on the path toward greater resilience.

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News and Updates

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The Trials and Triumphs of a Small City’s Hurricane Recovery Could Help Other Communities Bounce Back

In September 2018, a North Carolina city’s long road to recovery from Hurricane Matthew two years earlier became even longer. Lumberton, a small but diverse city of 21,000 people, 96 kilometers (60 miles) inland from the coast, unfortunately found itself in Hurricane Florence’s sights. The Lumber River, which bisects the city, swelled greatly. The flooding damaged hundreds of buildings, causing

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NIST to Provide Updates on Construction Safety Team Investigations in September Advisory Committee Meeting

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NIST Shares Preliminary Findings From Hurricane Maria Investigation

NIST Researcher Leads Workshop on Whole Community Preparedness at Smart Cities Conference

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