The National
Readiness Index.

Each of the 5 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Emergency supplies — Survey-weighted share of adults reporting emergency supplies set aside; does not establish adequacy or duration.
• Three-month savings buffer — Survey-weighted share of adults with money set aside for three months of expenses; adults are the unit, not households.
• Evacuation route knowledge — Survey-weighted share of adults who know their evacuation routes.
• Emergency water provision — Share of residents with independently verified access to at least 3 days of potable emergency water at 1 gallon per person per day; sampling frame must include private wells.
• Family contact plan — Survey-weighted share of adults with a plan to contact family members in an emergency.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Electricity interruption duration — National customer-weighted any-method SAIDI including major events, minutes/customer/year; maintain same reporting universe and document missing utilities.
• Distillate fuel buffer — US distillate stocks divided by trailing 4-week average daily product supplied, days; retain both series vintages and exact aggregation code.
• Tested critical-site backup power — Share of nationally enumerated critical facilities passing a documented 72-hour backup-power exercise in the prior 12 months.
• Adequate regional capacity — Share of US electricity customers in planning regions meeting their published reserve-margin target; use each region target, not a single invented national margin.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Small financial emergency coverage — Survey-weighted adults able and willing to cover a hypothetical $400 expense with cash or equivalent, including a credit card paid at the next statement; not savings alone.
• Unemployment rate — BLS LNS14000000 seasonally adjusted U-3, civilian noninstitutional population age 16+; labor-force denominator.
• Inflation pressure — Absolute deviation of 12-month CPI-U inflation from 2%; compute 100*(CPI_t/CPI_t-12 - 1), then abs(rate-2). CPI series CUUR0000SA0, NSA.
• Current bills paid — 100 minus survey-weighted share of adults not paying all prior-month bills; retain original source value and transformation.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Bridge condition — 100 minus percent of national bridge deck area classified poor in the FHWA NBI; use denominator deck area, not structure counts.
• Reliable drinking water — Resident-weighted share served without health-based drinking-water violations during the observation year; private-well residents must be covered or explicit missing population recorded.
• Tested network redundancy — Share of population served by critical telecommunications routes with independently tested redundant backhaul and backup power.
• Grid restoration capability — Customer-weighted share of electric distribution systems demonstrating restoration of prioritized critical loads within locally predeclared exercise targets in the prior year.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Supply-chain pressure — NY Fed GSCPI monthly value in standard deviations; global pressure proxy, not a direct US preparedness capacity measure.
• Food distribution continuity — Population-weighted share of food distribution service areas passing a documented 7-day continuity exercise within the last year.
• Freight contingency capacity — Share of nationally enumerated essential freight lanes with tested alternate routes and contracted replacement capacity within 72 hours.
• Essential goods availability — Share of item-region-days without stockouts for a preregistered basket of food, potable water, critical medicines and hygiene goods over a quarter; fixed basket weights and national sampling frame.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Demonstrated hospital surge — Population-weighted share of hospital service areas meeting predeclared staffed-bed and transfer surge targets in a documented annual exercise; staffed capacity, not licensed beds.
• Emergency medical resources — Population-weighted share of EMS service areas meeting predeclared staffing, transport and essential-supply targets during an annual exercise.
• Affordable healthcare access — 100 minus share of adults forgoing medical care because of cost in the preceding 12 months; financial access proxy.
• Public health response capability — Population-weighted share of jurisdictions meeting predeclared laboratory, surveillance and dispensing targets in audited annual PHEP exercises.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Exercised local emergency plans — Population-weighted share of local jurisdictions with an updated all-hazards plan and completed annual exercise covering disability and transport-access needs.
• Local response capability — Population-weighted share of jurisdictions demonstrating their published local response targets in exercises; target difficulty must be harmonized before comparison.
• Preparedness volunteer participation — Survey-weighted adults volunteering to help their community prepare; participation is a proxy, not measured volunteer deployment capacity.
• Public preparedness drills — Survey-weighted adults participating in an emergency drill.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Cyber recovery capability — Share of nationally representative critical operators that restore critical service within predeclared recovery objectives in an annual independent ransomware exercise.
• Exploited-vulnerability remediation — Share of in-scope known-exploited vulnerable asset instances remediated by the applicable deadline in a representative critical-operator audit; not the number of KEV entries.
• Cyber service continuity — Percent of monitored critical-service customer-hours without disruption attributable to verified cyber incidents; include zero-incident reporters and reporting coverage.
• Interoperable emergency communications — Population-weighted share of jurisdictions passing an annual interoperable communications exercise under commercial-network outage conditions.

Each of the 4 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Deployable response resources — Share of nationally required typed response resource units that are staffed, equipped, exercised and available within predeclared deployment targets; denominator from an agreed scenario set.
• Recovery capability — Population-weighted share of jurisdictions passing an annual recovery exercise for essential-service restoration, including finance and temporary housing targets.
• Evacuation system capability — Population-weighted share of at-risk evacuation zones meeting scenario-specific clearance targets in validated exercises or calibrated simulations, including people without vehicles.
• Response coordination — Population-weighted share of jurisdictions meeting mutual-aid coordination and resource-request targets in a documented multi-jurisdiction exercise.

Each of the 3 indicators has equal weight within this category. A score appears only when the entire weekly report is verified and approved.

• Preparedness information awareness — Survey-weighted adults aware of disaster preparedness information, using the exact published questionnaire definition.
• Preparedness efficacy — Survey-weighted adults meeting the published preparedness-efficacy definition; exact response categories must be retained.
• Perceived preparedness — Survey-weighted adults reporting preparedness for less than or more than one year; sum only mutually exclusive responses; self-perception, not verified capability.