Using Data to Support Disaster Declaration Requests

This video explores how accurate data is crucial in supporting disaster declaration requests by defining what data is needed and why it is important, how the data is used during the Initial Damage Assessments (IDA) and Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) process, where states, local governments, Tribal Nations and territories (SLTT) can find and access the data, where SLTTs find and access data from federal and government sources and available tools to find and document the data.