My Community Explorer adds Community Resilience Estimates to ACS maps

Aug 19, 2026

My Community Explorer (MCE) combines ACS 5‑year estimates, business data and real‑time incident layers and includes Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) to highlight neighborhoods with higher vulnerability; presenters demonstrated the tool on Los Angeles County, showing a Pomona census tract (4094090) with CRE indicators.

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Mac Treece showcased My Community Explorer as an interactive, layered mapping tool that incorporates ACS 5‑year estimates and Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) to help identify populations that may face more challenges during disasters. He described CRE as a way to "show which areas or groups of people may have more challenges during disaster or disasters," and demonstrated zoom and layer functions while exploring recent incidents in Los Angeles County.

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