Natural disaster assessments rarely include a consideration of worker and business disruptions with its impacts to the labor market. 

However, OnTheMap for Emergency Management uses a geographic display of an area's profile and its labor shed to estimate data on a number of factors, including the number of disaster-related unemployment insurance initial claims that may result from any given disaster event.

The Census Bureau's OnTheMap for Emergency Management

OnTheMap for Emergency Management is a public data tool that provides an intuitive web-based interface for accessing U.S. population and workforce statistics, in real time, for areas being affected by natural disasters. The tool allows users to retrieve reports containing detailed workforce, population, and housing characteristics for hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.