Daily Household Situational Awareness Checklist
Use a quick morning and evening situational awareness checklist to review weather alerts, outages, smoke, travel, fuel, and local official updates.
Preparedness guides
Evergreen household readiness pages with current dashboard context and local historical records.
Use this page to understand household emergency preparedness. Use the All-hazards situational awareness dashboard for current multi-hazard context across alerts, infrastructure stress, weather, wildfire, travel, public health, supply chain, and stability indicators. For context over time, explore Check your local FEMA disaster history.
Preparedness guides
Choose a practical checklist for the decision or disruption you are preparing for.
Evacuation Checklist: When to Leave Early
Use official evacuation orders, wildfire and flood conditions, route access, mobility needs, and fuel readiness to decide when to prepare or leave early.
Power Outage Food Safety: Keep, Toss & Check
Practical food-safety steps during a power outage, including what to check first, when to discard food, and how to verify current outage and weather context.
Generator Safety: Carbon Monoxide & Placement
Generator safety basics for outages, including carbon monoxide risk, placement mistakes, warning signs, and what conditions to check before using backup power.
Wildfire Smoke Readiness: AQI & Cleaner Air Rooms
Prepare your home for wildfire smoke using AQI and PM2.5 thresholds, cleaner-air-room steps, filtration checks, and current smoke and weather conditions.
Emergency Fuel Planning Without Panic Buying
Build an emergency fuel plan for evacuation, generators, and essential travel using storage safety, rotation, refill triggers, and current supply conditions.