WxEM Wave 1

This report describes the results of a regularly distributed survey of nationwide Emergency Managers as part of The Extreme Weather and Emergency Management Survey (WxEM) series. This project aims to send surveys to Emergency Managers across the United States three to four times a year, although that frequency may change based on Emergency Manager and research needs. The Extreme Weather and Emergency Management Survey, Wave 1 (WxEM Wave 1) was designed and administered by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA) at the University of Oklahoma. It is the first survey in the series (Stormer et al. 2023 and Wanless et al. 2023). WxEM Wave 1 opened on August 4, 2022, using an online questionnaire that as of this writing has been completed by 720 Emergency Management personnel that were contacted from an IPPRA built database of Emergency Managers from across the country (see Stormer et al. 2023 for more information on the database). WxEM Wave 1 was designed to recruit participants for the WxEM project. This survey gathers demographic information on enrollees, including location, jurisdiction type, and experience. This report presents an overview of the methodology of the survey data collection, and a reproduction of the survey instrument with frequencies for the questions that elicited numeric responses. Because this survey acts as an enrollment tool, it will remain open, and results may vary as participants are added and removed. Future reference reports will update the number of participants as the project continues.