Census Bureau demos Emergency Management Hub; presenter says FEMA data appear in tools within hours
The U.S. Census Bureau demonstrated its Emergency Management Hub and connected data tools in a webinar, showing how My Community Explorer, OnTheMap for Emergency Management and Community Resilience Estimates can help local planners. Presenter Kimberly Davis said FEMA-declared disasters are loaded into the tools within about four hours.
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The U.S. Census Bureau on a recent webinar demonstrated the Emergency Management Hub, a single‑page platform that aggregates local data planners can use for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Kimberly Davis, a data dissemination specialist who leads the demonstration, walked through the hub’s datasets and live tools and said FEMA-declared emergencies are ingested into the Census tools within roughly four hours of the agency’s declaration.
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