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The U.S. Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Index Grids, 2020 data set contains gridded layers for the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute's (HVRI) Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) index. BRIC aims to help identify communities that are resilient to natural hazards based on 50 variables sorted into six capitals (Social, Economic, Community, Institutional, Housing and Infrastructural, and Environmental) based on county-level inputs from 2020. Capital scores range from 0 to 1, based on min-maxed variables, with 1 indicating higher resilience counties and 0 representing lower resilience counties. BRIC scores are the sum of all capital scores and range from 0 to 6, with 6 indicating highest community resilience and 0 indicating lowest community resilience. |
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Download the U.S. Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Index Grids, 2020 data (43MB GeoTIFF) . |
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The methods for generating this layer are described in: Morgan, G. R., E. M. Kemp, M. Habets, K. Daniels-Baessler, G. Waddington, S. Adamo, C. Hultquist, and S. L. Cutter. 2024. Defining disadvantaged places: Social burdens of wildfire exposure in the Eastern United States, 2000–2020. Fire, 7, 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040124 Cutter, S. L., K. D. Ash, and C. T. Emrich. 2014. The geographies of community disaster resilience. Global Environmental Change, 29, 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.08.005 |
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Data set: Derakhshan, S., M. Habets, C. Hultquist, S. L. Cutter, and S. Adamo. 2025. U.S. Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Index Grids, 2020 (Preliminary Release). Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/e8hv-z493. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. Peer-reviewed publication: Morgan, G. R., E. M. Kemp, M. Habets, K. Daniels-Baessler, G. Waddington, S. Adamo, C. Hultquist, and S. L. Cutter. 2024. Defining disadvantaged places: Social burdens of wildfire exposure in the Eastern United States, 2000–2020. Fire, 7, 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040124 |
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This is a preliminary open data release, pending peer review of the data and associated journal articles. Following the peer review process, data curation will be completed by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) and the data will be disseminated through the EarthData catalog. |