Get Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) data — get_emergency_management

Retrieves Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) award data from FEMA, which supports state and local emergency management agencies.

Usage

get_emergency_management_performance(file_path = NULL, api = FALSE)

file_path: Path to the raw data. If NULL (default), reads the most recently cached file for this dataset from get_openfema_cache_path().
api: Logical indicating whether to use the OpenFEMA API to retrieve the data. Default is FALSE (read from file_path, or the local OpenFEMA cache if NULL).

A data frame containing emergency management performance grant (EMPG) data. Columns include:

id: Unique identifier for the grant record.
reporting_period: The reporting period associated with the record.
state_name: Full state name.
state_code: Two-digit state FIPS code.
state_abbreviation: Two-letter state abbreviation.
legal_agency_name: The name of the legal agency administering the grant.
project_type: The type of project funded.
year_project_start: Year the project started (derived from project_start_date, with corrections for a handful of records with typos in the raw data).
project_start_date: Date the project started.
project_end_date: Date the project ended.
name_of_program: The name of the EMPG program.
funding_amount: Funding amount in dollars.