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How Resilient Is Your Community?

Understand your strengths. Identify gaps. Build a more resilient future.


Wildfire, flooding, a mill closure or a highway cut off for weeks can test any community. This free self-assessment from O’Leary & Associates helps you see where your community is well prepared and where planning could go further.


27 questions  ·  9 pillars of community resilience  ·  About 8 minutes

Take the Free Assessment

Why Community Resilience Matters

Resilience is more than emergency response. It is a community’s ability to prepare for, adapt to and recover from shocks — economic, environmental and social — while continuing to build long-term well-being. It depends on a diverse economy, sound finances, a strong workforce, reliable infrastructure, good governance and lasting partnerships.


The self-assessment gives you a structured way to look across all of these at once, so you can see your strengths, spot gaps and decide where planning will make the biggest difference.

Who Is the Assessment For?

Local Government

Economic Development

Local Government

Municipalities and regional districts reviewing readiness across plans, services and partnerships.

First Nations

Economic Development

Local Government

First Nations governments and organizations looking at community preparedness and priorities.

Economic Development

Economic Development

Economic Development

Economic development organizations, Community Futures offices and chambers of commerce.

Emergency Management

Community Organizations

Economic Development

Staff and partners responsible for emergency planning, response and recovery.

Community Organizations

Community Organizations

Community Organizations

Non-profits and agencies that support residents, local business and community well-being.

What the Assessment Covers

27 Questions Across Nine Pillars

Economy · Fiscal · Workforce · Infrastructure · Climate · Emergency · Social · Governance · Reconciliation


Each question asks how far along your community is, from “Not started” to “In action and tracked.” Not sure? Say so. It won’t lower your score, and it helps show where knowledge is missing.


Your Community Resilience Scorecard

When you finish, you’ll see a scorecard showing where your community is strong and where the gaps are, pillar by pillar. Download it to share with your council, board or team and use it to guide conversations, planning and priorities.


Items marked EDMA reflect local authority requirements under BC’s Emergency and Disaster Management Act. The assessment is not a compliance review. This short version covers 27 of the 59 items in O&A’s full Community Resiliency Audit Framework, so results are indicative.

Better Together

People in the same community often see things differently. Invite council members, staff, local organizations and partners to take the assessment too. Responses from the same community are combined anonymously, giving you a fuller picture and a strong starting point for conversation.

Take the Free Assessment

From Assessment to Action

Economic Development

Economic Development

Economic Development

Strategies grounded in local strengths and priorities.

Community Engagement

Economic Development

Economic Development

Meaningful conversations with residents and partners.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity

Business Continuity

Planning to prepare for and recover from disruption.

Talk With Our Team

Business Continuity

Business Continuity

Ready to turn your results into practical next steps? We’d be glad to talk it through.

Connect with O’Leary & Associates

Ready to Explore Your Community’s Resilience?

It’s free, takes about eight minutes and gives you a clear picture of where to focus next.

Start Your Free Assessment

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