National Storm Shelter Association

Residential Safe Rooms

Help homeowners find relevant information, answers to their questions, and listings of NSSA qualified safe room producers.

Community/ Commercial Safe Rooms

Assist communities and businesses by providing safe room options, reliable information, NSSA Producer listings, and professional listings to provide necessary expertise to design and build safe rooms.

Member Information/ Join NSSA

Assist new member candidates in joining the NSSA. Provide existing Membership with listings, resources, documents and continual educational information.

Safe Room Component Manufacturers

Provide design professionals and manufacturers with component manufacturer’s listings providing safe room tested products.

Survival Shelter Information

The NSSA will provide listings of manufacturers which provide shelters that go beyond the ICC 500 Standard for storm protection and provide shelters for other disaster resilience or purposes.

The National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA) purpose is to ensure our members produce the highest quality of residential, commercial and community safe rooms for protecting people from injury or loss of life from the effects of tornadoes and other wind related events. The Association will be self-policing to maintain public confidence and respect for the storm shelter industry.

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The NSSA foundation can offer more educational programs and outreach programs which support the Safe Room Industry and public safety and awareness.

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News & Events

“How to Stop the Wind”
Article: Popular Mechanics: “How to Stop the Wind” By Brantley Hargrove- August 3, 2017 Don Greer and his wife, Helen, hid in a tornado shelter. Only he survived. Now, a team of engineers has committed to doing the impossible: building a structure that’s stronger and smarter than the merciless, random powers of nature itself…Read More…
Tornado Victim Preps for New Storm Shelter
Mayflower, Arkansas, A man’s tragedy during the deadly 2014 tornado leads to changes that save lives. See the video UPDATE: A shelter was donated to Mr. Greer by Vaughn Concrete Products, Inc., a Producer Member of NSSA
Prepare Fest
Submitted: August 30, 2016 Prepare Fest August 20, 2016 The City of Oklahoma City Office of Emergency Management in partnership with the Civic Center Music Hall and Oklahoma City Police and Fire Departments, hosted the city's first ever Disaster Preparedness Festival " Prepare Fest" on Saturday, August 20, 2016. This FREE community festival was being […]

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