Get Disaster Dollar Database Data

Usage

get_disaster_dollar_database(
  file_path = file.path(get_box_path(), "hazards", "carnegie-endowment",
    "disaster_dollar_database_2025_11_19.csv")
)

Arguments

file_path: The path (on Box) to the file containing the raw data.

Value

A dataframe comprising disaster-level observations with financial assistance metrics from FEMA's Individual and Households Program (IHP), Public Assistance (PA), HUD's Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), and SBA disaster loans.

Details

These data are sourced from: https://carnegieendowment.org/features/disaster-dollar-database. The data returned from this function are unchanged, though some columns have been renamed slightly for clarity and consistency.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_disaster_dollar_database()
} # }