You're prepared. Can your household run the plan without you?

BePrepared monitors your address and gives each person in the house their part of the plan.

You have the gear and the know-how. BePrepared monitors your address, sends the alert, and gives each person in the house their part of the plan, printed and on the fridge.

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How we use this

What we do with it. We look up public data for this spot: official alerts (National Weather Service and FEMA), flood maps (FEMA), wildfire hazard (US Forest Service), earthquakes and elevation (USGS), storm history (NOAA) and dams (US Army Corps of Engineers), and current weather from WeatherAPI.com. Only the map point goes to those services, and WeatherAPI.com gets it rounded to within a few miles. Address suggestions and the preview map come from Google Maps, so Google sees what you type here and the map point.

Nothing is saved until you activate. The address stays in this browser. If you start a plan, you confirm it before it is saved, and you can change or delete it any time.

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Privacy tip. Checking for someone else, or rather not share your own address yet? A neighbor's address or a nearby corner gives almost the same picture, because alerts, weather and county history cover the whole area. Flood zone and wildfire hazard belong to the exact spot.

Rather not use your own yet? An address a few doors down gives almost the same picture.

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Home · Pine Hollow Rd, rural MissouriBeAware

Mark’s household

Example

Ice storm warning2:14 AMSevereIce storm: power out near HomeIn two minutes: Power is out. Dana runs the plan from the tear sheet on the fridge.Your winter storm plan is ready.What this means, and what to do

BeReady · Winter storm planEveryone has the same plan, on their phones and on a printed tear sheet.Shared with Dana, Eli, Ray, Mark

Timeline

2:14 AMAn ice storm warning, then lines down on Pine Hollow Rd. BeAware alerts Mark on the road.
2:20 AMThe Winter storm plan is already on the fridge: generator, water, heat, who checks on Grandma.
6:00 AMMark checks in from the road. The house is running the plan.
11:40 AMAll clear: power restored, per the utility’s outage map. Out 9 hours 26 minutes.

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What it adds to the prep you already do

When the gear is covered, the gap is usually the hand-off. The plan lives in one head, and on the night it matters, that person may be on the road.

A sample tear sheet from an example household’s BeReady plan: one person’s first steps, meeting points and out-of-area contact on one printable page. — Sample plan · example household. One tear sheet per person, printed for the fridge.Open the full sample plan (PDF) (opens in a new tab)

Tear sheets on the fridge: Each person in the house gets a tear sheet with their part of the plan on one page: who runs the generator checklist, who checks on Grandma, where the fuel is. It works with the power out.
One plan the household shares: Share the plan with the people in your household. When an alert lands, they are working from the same steps in your plan, not guessing what you would do.
What your address has actually faced: The free check above shows the most common declared disaster in your county, from FEMA’s records, plus what the National Weather Service has out there right now.
A checklist that stays done: Progress is saved as you work through the plan, so the fuel rotation and the drill you ran last month are still checked off when the season turns.

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We monitor the place, not the person

The preview uses public data about a spot on the map: official alerts, flood maps, wildfire hazard and storm history. None of it is about you, and nothing is saved until you activate.

Checking for someone else, or rather not share your own address yet? An address three doors down gives almost the same picture for alerts, weather and county history. Flood zone and wildfire hazard belong to the exact spot.

Hand the plan to the people who will run it

See it on your own address, with your own household.