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Days Emergency Operations Center activated
Coordinate citywide emergency mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. — Coordinate emergency response for disasters of all scales and types.
NYCEM's Emergency Operations Center stayed activated almost every day from Fiscal 2022 through Fiscal 2025, largely because of the citywide response to the asylum seeker influx (which ran through May 2024) plus other major events like the CrowdStrike outage and severe weather. The sharp drop shown for Fiscal 2026 reflects NYCEM's own reporting that EOC activation fell about 90 percent in the first four months of the year as its role in asylum seeker operations wound down.
Researched July 16, 2026 — NYCEM, Fiscal 2025 Mayor's Management Report, NYCEM, Fiscal 2024 Mayor's Management Report, NYCEM, Fiscal 2026 Preliminary Mayor's Management Report
* Year to date — this fiscal year isn't complete, so it's not compared against prior years in the target/trend status above. The dashed marker projects a full-year estimate at the current year-to-date pace.
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| Fiscal year | Actual |
|---|---|
| FY22 | 365 days |
| FY23 | 350 days |
| FY24 | 366 days |
| FY25 | 365 days |
| FY26 (YTD) | 50 days |
| FY26 (projected) | ~67 days |
Why this is tracked
The Office of Emergency Management was formed in 1996 under Mayor Giuliani to coordinate citywide disaster response across the many separate agencies (police, fire, health, transportation) that need to work together in a crisis, and voters made it a permanent City Charter agency in 2001. Its own headquarters and Emergency Operations Center, located in 7 World Trade Center, was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, forcing the agency to relocate and rebuild while helping coordinate the City's response to the worst disaster in its history.
Source: NYCEM Readiness Bureau — via NYC Open Data: Mayor's Management Report, Agency Performance Indicators
Coverage shown: FY22–FY26, reported monthly.
Definition: The total number of days that the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was activated.