risk
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FEMA's National Risk Index scores every county for disaster risk, and it decides which communities count as Disaster Resilience Zones. GAO found FEMA changed its inputs without testing the effect, and FEMA now says it will not update it.
The National Risk Index rates every U.S. county and census tract for 18 natural hazards, combining expected losses with social vulnerability and community resilience. FEMA uses it to designate Community Disaster Resilience Zones under a 2022 law, and planners use it to decide where to spend on mitigation. GAO's report of September 10 found FEMA swapped in a new social vulnerability data source in late 2025 that changed the values for more than half of counties, without checking how that moved anyone's overall risk score. Users told GAO the index gives them little they can act on, and by April 2025 FEMA had completed 14 of the 152 improvements its own public comment process produced. FEMA has folded the index into another tool and told GAO there is no plan to update it. DHS rejected GAO's recommendation to test changes before making them.
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