Coastal Resilience Index

The Coastal Resilience Index is a self-assessment tool developed by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and NOAA's Coastal Storms Program. To determine their index score, community leaders use the tool to guide a discussion about their community’s resilience to coastal hazards. The Index provides a simple, inexpensive method to understand their community’s resilience to coastal hazards, identifying weaknesses a community may want to address prior to the next hazard event and guiding community discussion. The Index is not intended for comparison among different communities.

The Index can be completed in less than three hours. The questionnaire asks mainly "yes" or "no" questions on topics such as critical facilities and infrastructure, transportation issues, community plans and agreements, mitigation measures, business plans, and social systems).