Most towns are ready for 72 hours. We help you be ready for 30 to 60 days.
You don’t have to harden every wire and pipe to be resilient — that would break any municipal budget. There is a sensible middle path: know your dependencies, fix your worst single points of failure, and build a continuity capability that carries your community through the weeks that matter. We’ll map it for you, at no cost.
Between doing nothing and hardening everything
Communities tend to see two options, and freeze. There is a third, and it’s the one that actually gets funded and built.
Do nothing
Hope the event doesn’t come. Free today — ruinously expensive on Day 4, when there is no plan and no supply.
A sensible 30–60 day capability
Target the dependencies and failure points that actually decide whether your community functions — water, power, food, communications, coordination. Fund what matters first.
Harden everything
Full systemic hardening of all infrastructure. Technically ideal, financially impossible for almost any municipality. The plan that never leaves the binder.
Resilience that doesn’t break the bank is the kind that gets built. We help you find the smallest set of investments that buys the biggest jump in days-of-supply.
Assess. Plan. Certify.
Performed by certified assessors, built entirely from your community’s actual infrastructure data — not a generic template.
Assess
We load your critical infrastructure from federal databases, trace the dependency chains, identify single points of failure, and calculate your days-of-supply across each lifeline.
Plan
You receive a complete companion document suite — executive summary, roadmap, funding navigator, training plan, threat report — all generated from your real data and prioritized by impact.
Certify
We train your team along a maturity pathway, from orientation through assessor certification, so the capability lives inside your own staff and lasts.
A document suite built from your data
Concrete, fundable, and yours to act on — with no sales pitch attached.
The assessment is free. The first step is yours.
FIR conducts community resilience assessments at no cost — funded by the Foundation’s endowment model, not by selling you anything. No upsell, no obligation. Just an honest picture of where your community stands and what it would take to stand on its own.
Your community depends on infrastructure it doesn’t control.
Let’s map that dependency together, and build the plan for Day 4 — calmly, affordably, and on your timeline.