Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Index

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute

Version:  View help for Version V2

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TechnicalDocumentation_BRIC_V1.0.pdf application/pdf 981.5 KB 01/13/2025 10:19:AM
baseline-resilience-indicators-communities-v1-county-2010.zip application/zip 5.9 MB 01/13/2025 10:12:AM
baseline-resilience-indicators-communities-v1-county-2015.zip application/zip 14.4 MB 01/06/2025 08:49:AM
baseline-resilience-indicators-communities-v1-county-2020.zip application/zip 15.5 MB 01/13/2025 10:13:AM

Project Citation: 

Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute. Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Index. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209669V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary The Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities Index aims to help identify communities that are resilient to natural hazards. This BRIC data set contains polygon layers for the overall Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute (HVRI) BRIC using six capitals (Social, Economic, Community, Economic, Institutional, Housing and Infrastructural, and Environmental) based on county-level inputs from 2010, 2015, and 2020. The files contain all six capital scores and the BRIC score for each county. BRIC values range from 0 to 6 based on the six capital scores ranging from 0 to 1. Capital scores are calculated from min-maxed values of each of their component variables. For all variables, capitals, and the BRIC values, 0 represents the lowest community resilience, and higher values represent the most resilient counties. The data are provided for the entire United States following the county geography of the year the BRIC was created and for the contiguous United States following the county geography of the year the BRIC was created. 2010 BRIC is only available for the contiguous United States.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Science Foundation (SES1132755); National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Institute of Medicine (20001088)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms community resilience; index; BRIC
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States, CONUS
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2010 – 2020 (Index available for 2010, 2015, and 2020)
Universe:  View help for Universe Counties in the United States, excluding U.S. island territories
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; geographic information system (GIS) data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source BRIC uses 50 variables collected from a variety of census, federal agency, and non-profit data sources. This list of variables has changed over time. Please refer to the technical documentation in each data download folder for the specific variables used for that BRIC construction.
Weights:  View help for Weights The data are not weighted.
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation County
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit County

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