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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Instructions for ICC 500 2021 public comment
See instructions for submitting public comment regarding the ICC 500 2021 draft by clicking “download” above. Shared by Kimberly Paarlberg, RA,International Code CouncilCodes and Standards, Senior Staff Architect Dear ICC 500 Committee members and interested parties, ICC is pleased to announce the ICC 500 Committee for Storm Shelters has completed their review of the Public […]
ICC 500 2021 draft for review
Click on the “download” button above to access the ICC 500 2021 draft. PLEASE NOTE: If you require a higher resolution PDF for better readability, contact Ben Harris at [email protected]
Safe room saves family of four in Mississippi tornado
According to the Associated Press, a family of four in Moss, Mississippi, survived an April 12 tornado by sheltering in their residential concrete safe room. Homeowners Andrew and Amber Phillips and their two children rode out the storm in their safe room, which was part of the home they bought a few weeks prior. The […]

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