FEMA National Household Survey Data

National Household Survey Data Collected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The National Household Survey (NHS) tracks progress in personal disaster preparedness through investigation of the American public's preparedness actions, attitudes, and motivations. FEMA administers the survey in English and Spanish via landline and mobile telephone to a random sampling of approximately 5,000 adult respondents. The survey includes a nationally representative sample as well as hazard-specific oversamples, which may include earthquake, flood, wildfire, hurricane, winter storm, extreme heat, tornado, and urban event. FEMA delays publishing the data until approximately the release of the summary results for the subsequent NHS iteration. The NHS ran from 2014 to 2024 annually. But only the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 datasets are published openly. Since the end of 2024, the datasets are no longer available on FEMA's website. The original distribution URL for these datasets was: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/data-sets/national-household-survey.