National Preparedness Report

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Through the NPR, FEMA assesses the nation’s emergency management posture and identifies challenges and opportunities for improvement. FEMA has developed the NPR for the past eleven years as an annual requirement of Presidential Policy Directive 8 and in alignment with the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act. The NPR provides partners across the nation with insights about risks and associated capabilities to support decisions about program priorities, resource allocations, and community actions. Whole community partners are the intended audience of the NPR—including all levels of government, individuals and families, community organizations and nonprofits, and businesses.
The 2023 NPR outlines the nation's progress towards achieving the National Preparedness Goal of “A secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk” as well as recommendations for closing remaining gaps. This annual report draws upon various data sources, including open-source data, FEMA and community preparedness data sets, and submissions from federal departments and agencies. FEMA also recognizes critical infrastructure owners and operators as important partners in emergency management and community resilience, but did not collect insights into preparedness from this group, as such research presently extends beyond the scope of this report.
The NPR covers the domestic preparedness and emergency management challenges facing the nation. For information regarding international threats and hazards, refer to the 2023 Office of Director of National Intelligence Annual Threat Assessment. For information regarding homeland security threats and hazards, refer to the 2023 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2023 Homeland Threat Assessment.