Wildfire and smoke readiness
If wildfire or smoke affects your area, review evacuation routes, alerts, and indoor-air plans.
Review wildfire planningPrepare for the next outage
Keep water, food, light, phones, and essential devices covered.
Build a household plan around the services you cannot do without. Work out what to store, what needs backup power, and what to check before conditions worsen.
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If a disruption is happening now
Use official local alerts first.
Home Resilience Hub does not issue emergency alerts.
Plan for conditions where you live
Seasonal readiness reminders
These are planning prompts, not local alerts. Follow your local emergency-management and weather services for current instructions.
Hurricane readiness
If tropical weather affects your area, review official alerts, evacuation guidance, and outage supplies.
Review hurricane planningLow and no-cost first
Start with what you already have.
Preparedness begins with decisions and practice, not a shopping cart.
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Enable local alerts
Know which agency and utility will publish current instructions.
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Write down contacts
Choose an out-of-area contact and keep a paper copy.
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Test one fallback
Try lights, charging, stored water, or a no-cook meal before you need it.
Plan by household system
Six systems. One practical household plan.
Water
Minimums, storage, and treatment limits
Plan waterFood
Familiar meals, cooking, and rotation
Plan foodPower
Essential loads, runtime, and safe backup
Plan powerCommunications
Alerts, contacts, and offline fallback
Plan communicationsEmergency kit
Household needs, weight, and practice
Plan emergency kitHome safety
Alarms, lighting, access, and shutoffs
Plan home safetyPractical planning tools
Turn uncertainty into a short, useful plan.
Begin with your household and likely outage. Then use the detailed tools only where you need exact sizing, safety limits, or a shopping list.
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Outage readiness
A focused household action list for a 72-hour or extended outage.
Water storage A drinking and cooking baseline, rough pet allowance, reserves, and container counts. Food storage A no-cook or cook-required shopping outline, volume estimate, and rotation plan. Solar power Essential-load solar, battery, inverter, and rough panel-area estimates. Generator runtime A runtime estimate based on manufacturer fuel-use figures and selected loads. Battery runtime Usable energy and runtime based on capacity, loads, reserve, and conversion loss. Power station selector Minimum capacity and output requirements matched against dated manufacturer specifications. Emergency kit weight A category-by-category kit total compared with your own carry-tested target.
Need a plan the household can keep?
Use the private water and essential-load worksheets, then print or save a PDF.
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