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Offline-style planning worksheet
Evacuation Route Reality Check
Stress-test evacuation assumptions before a crisis: fuel range, destinations, pets, mobility, medical needs, vehicle limits, route uncertainty, and departure time.
This is not a navigation app and does not provide official evacuation routing. Follow official evacuation orders, shelter-in-place instructions, road closures, and local emergency-management guidance.
Use this as a pre-planning worksheet. Conditions can change quickly; do not drive through floodwater, smoke with unsafe visibility, HAZMAT plume areas, barricades, or closed roads.
Route readiness score
63
/100 · Workable with gaps
Biggest evacuation weakness
- Primary destination is not defined.
Fuel/range margin warning
- Fuel/range: workable but not generous. Plan for idling, backtracking, closed stations, and traffic.
Pets, mobility, and medical complication warning
- No pet, livestock, mobility, or medical complication was entered; keep this updated if conditions change.
Departure decision checklist
- Follow official evacuation orders, shelter-in-place instructions, road closures, evacuation zones, and local emergency-management guidance over this worksheet.
- If an order, warning, or immediate threat applies, leave earlier than your time budget suggests.
- Confirm every person, pet/livestock group, medication, mobility device, and vehicle has an assigned owner.
- Check official road closures and hazard updates before departure; do not rely on old screenshots or rumors.
- Text/call your out-of-area contact with destination, route intention, vehicle description, and departure time.
- If the primary route is blocked, do not improvise through floodwater, smoke, plume areas, barricades, or damaged infrastructure.
What to do with 5 / 15 / 30 / 60 minutes
5 minutes
- People first: shoes, keys, phone, wallet/ID, essential medications, glasses/hearing aids, and mobility devices.
- Load pets already in carriers/leashes if ready; do not search for replaceable items.
- Leave immediately if an official order or immediate danger exists.
15 minutes
- Do the 5-minute list, then grab go-bags, chargers, critical documents, pet food/meds, and medical equipment batteries.
- Text your destination and route intention to out-of-area contact before networks degrade.
- Shut doors/windows if safe and does not delay departure.
30 minutes
- Do the 15-minute list, then add water, snacks, extra clothing, cash, backup keys, sanitation items, and comfort items for children/pets.
- Confirm primary and alternate destinations can receive your people, pets, trailer/RV, or medical equipment.
- Stage vehicles facing out; load mobility aids and secure animals.
60 minutes
- Do the 30-minute list, then top off fuel if nearby and safe, download/update offline maps, and print/write the evacuation card.
- Move livestock/trailers early; verify hitch, tires, feed, water, and destination access.
- Check official road, weather, shelter, and evacuation-zone updates one more time before leaving.
Hazard-specific notes
- Wildfire: leave early; routes can become smoky, congested, or converted to one-way evacuation traffic.
- Use official evacuation routes, zones, road closures, and law-enforcement/fire direction over any pre-planned shortcut.
Offline maps reminder
- Download or print offline maps for your area, primary route, alternate route, fuel stops, shelters, and destination. Include paper notes because cell service and power may fail.
Communication plan
- Pick one out-of-area contact who receives departure time, route intention, destination, and arrival confirmation.
- Create a short group text now: 'Leaving from [home] toward [destination]. If blocked, alternate is [place]. Next check-in by [time].'
- Write down key phone numbers, addresses, medication/device details, insurance/pet records, and local emergency channels on paper.
- If cell service fails, use pre-agreed check-in windows and leave a visible note only if it does not reveal unsafe personal information.
Reunification plan
- Set a near meeting point outside the home and a far meeting point outside the hazard area.
- Decide who picks up children, elders, roommates, or coworkers if school/work pickup is required.
- Name backup drivers and backup caregivers for pets, livestock, and medically dependent people.
- Choose what to do if vehicles are separated: continue to destination, check in with out-of-area contact, then regroup at the far meeting point.
Alternate route/destination worksheet
- Home base: home base.
- Primary destination/direction: direction not set. Confirm access, parking, pets, medical power, and overnight options.
- Alternate destination: alternate destination not set. Confirm it is outside the likely hazard area and does not rely on the same choke point.
- Primary route assumptions: list bridges, canyons, low-water crossings, tunnels, one-lane roads, fuel stops, and likely congestion points.
- Alternate route assumptions: list two decision points where you would switch routes before becoming trapped in traffic.
- No-go rules: floodwater, barricades, official closures, heavy smoke/zero visibility, active HAZMAT plume, damaged bridges, or law-enforcement blocks.
Printable evacuation card
- • Evacuation Route Reality Check — planning worksheet only, not official routing.
- • Start: home base
- • Primary: primary destination not set
- • Alternate: alternate destination not set
- • People/vehicles: 2 people / 1 vehicle(s)
- • Hazard: Wildfire · Time available: 30+ minutes
- • Readiness: 63/100 (Workable with gaps)
- • Biggest weakness: Primary destination is not defined.
- • Fuel/range: Fuel/range: workable but not generous. Plan for idling, backtracking, closed stations, and traffic.
- • Official guidance overrides this card. Follow evacuation orders, road closures, shelter-in-place directions, and emergency-management instructions.
Important limitations
- HazardNow does not know your exact road conditions, official evacuation zones, shelter capacity, or traffic.
- No paid or live route API is used in this version; your own official sources and local knowledge must update the worksheet.
- For chemical/HAZMAT incidents, shelter-in-place may be safer when officials direct it.
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