The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) is a geographic information systems (GIS) tool to help emergency managers and community partners at all GIS skill levels to visualize and assess potential challenges to community resilience.

This User Guide provides in-depth information on RAPT functionality and step-by-step instructions on how to use all the features.

The link to RAPT as well as video tutorials are available at https://www.fema.gov/RAPT.

DATA OVERVIEW

RAPT includes multiple data layers:

• Infrastructure information drawn from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)1Subcommittee, such as fire station and hospital
• Hazards such as real-time weather layers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and historic tornado/hurricane
• Risk information from the National Risk Index on the estimated annualized frequency of 15 natural hazards, including coastal flooding, drought, earthquake and

The 20 Community Resilience Indicators identified in the Community Resilience Indicator Analysis: County-Level Analysis of Commonly Used Indicators from Peer-Reviewed Research: 2020 Updates (CRIA) conducted by FEMA and Argonne National Laboratory. All 20 indicators include county data; 12 also include census tract data. Tribal census data is also included in RAPT.

1 The HIFLD Open data portal contains national foundation-level geospatial critical infrastructure data in the public domain. You can access HIFLD Open at https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/.