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2025 Call for Code and Data Examples

Have you recently finished a project or published a paper that integrates social and health science data with disaster, climate or environmental data? Would you like to share your code on CACHE?

We are pleased to announce a call for your code and data integrating social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, climate, and health.

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R markdown for how to use SHELDUS data (Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States) with US Census’ American Community Survey (ACS) micro data

This example demonstrates linkages and analysis applications for South Carolina. Click here to download the zip file that contains code and data for all users. The workshop agenda found here provides links to other materials (presentations, slide-deck, lab worksheet) that accompany it.

FEMA Disaster Declaration Summaries available at county scale

Disaster Declarations Summaries is a summarized dataset describing all federally declared disasters. This dataset lists all official FEMA Disaster Declarations, beginning with the first disaster declaration in 1953 and features all three disaster declaration types: major disaster, emergency, and fire management assistance. The dataset includes declared recovery programs and geographic areas (county not available before 1964; Fire Management records are considered partial due to historical nature of the dataset).

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The multi-faceted, publicly-available disaster data platform from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

OpenFEMA is the “agency’s data delivery platform which provides datasets to the public in open, industry standard, machine-readable formats. Datasets are available in multiple formats, including downloadable files and through an easily digestible Application Programming Interface (API). Each page includes information about the specific dataset, links to downloadable files, a data dictionary describing each field, and an endpoint link (if applicable for those datasets available via the API).”