Link to web service for MSAs/Non-MSAs that are energy communities as they meet the Fossil Fuel Employment 0.17% Threshold and unemployment rate requirement as of June 7, 2024. Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non-metropolitan statistical areas (non-MSAs) that are energy communities as of June 7, 2024, and until the release of the 2025 Annual Statistical Area Category and Coal Closure Category Update. These MSAs and non-MSAs have had for at least one year since 2009, 0.17% or greater direct employment related to extraction, processing, transport, or storage of coal, oil, or natural gas (the fossil fuel employment (FFE) threshold) and have an unemployment rate for 2023 that is equal to or greater than the national average unemployment rate for 2023. These MSAs and non-MSAs that meet the 2023 unemployment rate requirement are energy communities as of June 7, 2024, and will maintain that status until the unemployment rates for 2024 become available and the 2025 Annual Statistical Area Category and Coal Closure Category Update is released. The guidance that determines the MSAs and non-MSAs that are energy communities based on 2024 unemployment rates will likely be released in May, 2025. In addition, the map shows MSAs and non-MSAs that only meet the FFE threshold. These MSAs and non-MSAs are not energy communities as of June 7, 2024, because they do not meet the unemployment rate requirement; however, these areas could become energy communities in a future year if the unemployment requirement is also met.