Alerts and emergency contacts
Replace every US alert service and emergency number with the official services for your country, region, and municipality.
For readers outside the United States
Keep the method. Replace the local assumptions.
Home Resilience Hub is written for US households, but much of the planning method travels: list essential needs, calculate a baseline, identify failure points, and write down a fallback. Local alerts, laws, equipment, buildings, climate, and public-health instructions do not travel with it.
Before using a guide or calculator
Localize these four things
Power and equipment
Check local voltage, frequency, plug types, wiring rules, fuel rules, certifications, and the exact equipment manual.
Water, food, and health
Use current local public-health guidance for advisories, treatment, food preservation, medication, heat, smoke, and sanitation.
Buildings and evacuation
Follow the building manager and local authorities for shelter, generator, balcony, lift, fire, flood, and evacuation decisions.
Convert the planning units
Calculator inputs and saved plan values keep US gallons, pounds, and cubic feet where those units fit the US source or product context. Results also show metric equivalents. For a quick planning conversion:
- 1 US gallon is about 3.79 liters.
- 1 pound is about 0.45 kilograms.
- 1 cubic foot is about 28.3 liters, or 0.028 cubic meters.
Do not confuse a US gallon with an imperial gallon. These approximate conversions follow NIST's published conversion table. A converted estimate still needs local source guidance and product units.
Find official information where you live
During an active event, use current instructions from your local authorities. These international directories can help you find the right starting point:
- WMO Severe Weather Information Centre for warnings supplied by participating national meteorological services.
- IFRC National Societies directory for Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations in 191 countries.
- WHO heat and health guidance for a broadly applicable heat-risk baseline that still defers to local warnings.
Useful official starting points
This is not a complete country directory. It gives readers in several locations already appearing in site analytics a direct route to current public guidance.
- Canada: Get Prepared power-outage guidance.
- European Union: EU Preparedness Union guidance; national and local instructions still control.
- United Kingdom: Prepare for household plans, hazards, and support needs.
- Singapore: SCDF SG Alert and NEA haze guidance.
- Philippines: PAGASA storm-surge information and current tropical-cyclone advisories.
What usually transfers well?
Load inventories, runtime arithmetic, layered communication plans, maintenance calendars, written checklists, and the habit of testing a fallback before an outage are broadly useful. Treat every number as a starting assumption until it matches your household and local authority.
Start with the situation-led guide, then use this page as a localization check before acting on the result.