Free preparedness paths

Prepare by situation.
Know what to do next.

Start with the disruption in front of you. Each path connects immediate safety actions, a locally saved plan, free FlintReady guidance, live public tools, and official sources. No account. No paywall.

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Six practical readiness paths.

Use one path now, or work through all six to build a complete household system.

POWER

Power Outage

Prepare for the first ten minutes, a long overnight outage, food and medication concerns, dangerous temperatures, and safe backup power.

Outcome Keep the household safe and functional through at least 72 hours without grid power. Build this plan WATER

Water Emergency

Build a safe water reserve, recognize the difference between public notices, and plan for drinking, food preparation, hygiene, sanitation, and resupply.

Outcome Give every household member a safe drinking-water plan for at least three days, with a path toward two weeks. Build this plan MOVE

Evacuation

Decide where to go, when to leave, what to take, how to communicate, and how to keep people, pets, medications, documents, and routes accountable.

Outcome Be able to leave safely with the whole household in 15 minutes when officials order evacuation. Build this plan WEATHER

Severe Weather

Turn watches, warnings, forecasts, and local orders into clear household actions for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfire smoke, earthquakes, winter storms, heat, and cold.

Outcome Know the safest place, the trigger to shelter or leave, and the official source to monitor for your most likely hazards. Build this plan VEHICLE

Vehicle Emergency

Prepare for breakdowns, crashes, long traffic delays, winter stranding, extreme heat, flooding, fire, dead batteries, and loss of navigation or cellular service.

Outcome Carry the supplies and decisions needed to protect the scene, communicate your exact location, and wait or move safely. Build this plan PLAN

Household Plan

Build the communication, role, medical, animal, document, shelter, evacuation, and practice system that turns separate supplies into a household plan.

Outcome Give every household member a written role, two meeting places, an out-of-area contact, and clear shelter and evacuation decisions. Build this plan

Your free action board

Eight actions that improve almost every emergency outcome.

Check an item when it is genuinely complete. Your browser saves progress only on this device; FlintReady never receives it.

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Run the three-minute Readiness Diagnostic and save the weakest category.
Store three days of water for every person and animal in the household.
Choose two meeting places and one out-of-area contact.
Enable emergency alerts and open Mission Control for your location.
Build or inspect one go-bag and one vehicle emergency kit.
Write down medication, medical-power, mobility, and accessibility needs.
Choose the safest shelter location and two evacuation routes.
Practice one ten-minute household drill and fix the biggest delay.

Need a starting point?

Use the diagnostic to find the first gap.

Twelve questions turn your current supplies and skills into a prioritized fix list mapped to free guides.

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