Get Data from Preliminary Damage Assessments Submitted to FEMA for Disaster Declarations

These data reflect extracted attributes from PDF preliminary damage assessments hosted on FEMA's website at: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/how-declared/preliminary-damage-assessments/reports. Owing to the unstructured nature of the source documents, some fields may be incorrect in the data returned by the function, though significant quality checks have been implemented in an effort to produce a high-quality dataset.

Usage

get_preliminary_damage_assessments(
  file_path = file.path(get_box_path(), "hazards", "urban",
    "preliminary-damage-assessments", "pda_data.csv"),
  directory_path = file.path(get_box_path(), "hazards", "urban",
    "preliminary-damage-assessments"),
  use_cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

file_path

The file path to the cached dataset, or if there is no cache, the path at which to cache the resulting data.

directory_path

The path to the directory where PDA PDFs are stored. Use scrape_pda_pdfs to generate these files.

use_cache

Boolean. Read the existing dataset stored at file_path? If FALSE, data will be generated anew. Else, if a file exists at file_path, this file will be returned.

Value

A dataframe of preliminary damage assessment reports.

Examples

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