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FEMA publishes Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) reports at https://www.fema.gov/disaster/how-declared/preliminary-damage-assessments/reports. These reports contain valuable data about things such as the number and severity of homes impacted by a disaster and the estimated costs of disaster damages to housing and public infrastructure. However, because these reports are only published as PDF documents, not as tabular data, this information has never been compiled and made systematically available.
This catalog listing contains a tabular dataset derived from these PDF reports. A description of the methodology used to create these data, and a software package for replicating this data-creation workflow, is available at https://urbaninstitute.github.io/preliminary-damage-assessments/.
The specific dataset in this catalog listing is produced using the methodology referenced above; refer to the filename for the specific date when the data were last updated.
Dataset Info
- Modified 2026-09-22
- Release Date 2026-08-26
- Temporal Coverage
- License odc-by
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- Contact Name Urban Institute
- Contact Email [email protected]
- Public Access Level public
Urban Extended Info
- Modified 2026-09-22
- Release Date 2026-08-26
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Urban Publications
- Citation Requirements Curran-Groome, Will. 2026. FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessments. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/fema-preliminary-damage-assessments. Data and files originally sourced from FEMA, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.
