Mission
Deliver high-quality, consistent, and accessible data on structures and populations at risk to support life safety, economic, and social consequence modeling in risk assessments.
Vision
To support risk-informed decision-making across by developing innovative and equitable national structure data and reliably serving the data to our users.
Goals
- Provide reliable and reproducible structure and population data for all locations in the U.S.
- Incorporate emerging methods for estimating structure attributes and uncertainty.
- Expand the NSI’s usefulness through APIs, user feedback, and continuous data improvement.
- Facilitate analysis of vulnerable populations and community resilience at the structure level.
- Improve the ability for the U.S. to respond to disasters.
- Improve the ability for the U.S. to plan for future disasters.