Power outage
Prioritize essential loads, lighting, communication, food safety, and safe backup power.
Power Outage Home Resilience ManualOne household decision at a time
What are you preparing for?
Choose the situation in front of you. You can also start with a household topic if you are planning ahead.
Prepare by disruption
Choose a situation
Winter storm
Prepare heat, water, food, travel decisions, and outage fallbacks before conditions worsen.
Winter Storm Preparedness Guide: Before, During, and AfterWildfire
Reduce home exposure, keep official alerts available, and make early evacuation decisions.
Wildfire Home Preparedness: Evacuation, Property, and Smoke PlanningHurricane
Work through alerts, home protection, water, outage planning, and evacuation timing.
Hurricane Preparedness Checklist: Evacuation, Home, and Outage PlanningExtreme heat
Choose cooling, check-in, medication, pet, power, and relocation actions before indoor conditions become unsafe.
Extreme Heat and Power Outages: A Household Cooling and Safety PlanEvacuation
Prepare documents, routes, contacts, medication, pets, and a carryable household kit.
Disaster Preparedness Checklist: A Household Planning ReviewEmergency kit
Build a household-fit kit, place it where it can be reached, and keep its contents usable and carryable.
Build a Home Emergency Kit That Fits Your HouseholdShelter in place
Plan water, food, sanitation, communication, indoor safety, and a longer service disruption.
Home Resilience: A Practical Household Preparedness GuideOr plan by household system
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Household readiness
Make a household plan for the systems and people you depend on.
Open this topicBackup power
Prioritize essential loads before choosing backup power.
Open this topicWater & sanitation
Store usable water and understand treatment limits.
Open this topicFood & cooking
Plan familiar meals, safe storage, and cooking fallbacks.
Open this topicCommunications
Keep alerts, contacts, and offline fallbacks available.
Open this topicHome safety & security
Choose among fire escape, alarms, entry safety, and outage behavior.
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