The ability of a community “to prepare for anticipated natural hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions (NIST, 2020).” As a consequence-reduction risk component of the National Risk Index, a community resilience score and rating represent a community’s resilience compared to that of all other communities at the same administrative level (e.g., county, census tract). A community resilience score is inversely proportional to a community’s risk. A higher community resilience score results in a lower Risk Index score. Source: FEMA, 2023.