Data Collection: Survey of State Hazard Mitigation Officers

In early 2023, we sent a Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) electronic survey to 56 state and territorial hazard mitigation officers (SHMOs). SHMOs from each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and five major territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands) were invited via email to complete an electronic survey. The survey was a follow-up to a similar survey administered in 2018 (Gonick and Errett, DOI: 10.3390/su10114150). Survey questions aimed to assess changes since the 2018 survey. Most questions aligned with those posed in 2018, with updates to account for new FEMA hazard mitigation policies and respondent-jurisdiction perceptions of climate change. Additional questions sought information on climate adaptation planning, which was not a subject of inquiry in the 2018 survey.