State-specific guidance

Generic checklists stop being useful the moment the hazard has a name your state knows better than anyone: ShakeAlert in California, storm surge and winter-grid outages in Texas. This page gives your family the state's own guidance — the hazards to prepare for, who to follow, how official alerts reach you, the state's plan pages, and the state-specific legal and insurance links — with the official source next to every single fact.

Every fact on this page carries a link to the official source it came from, and anything we could not verify is left out and said so, rather than guessed.

Free, always. State guidance is part of the free tier — in an emergency nobody should meet a paywall. Nothing here needs an account, and nothing you read is tracked.

Find Emergency Information for Your State

Select your state below to view state-specific emergency preparedness information, important resources, and helpful contacts for your family.

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All 50 states and the District of Columbia are live — every page is built from that state's own official sources, cited next to each fact.

Live now: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming. Every page here stands on its state's own official sources, cited next to each fact — a state appears only once we have verified it.

What you'll get for your state

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What to prepare for
The state's own hazard list — with your own address lookup where the state provides one.
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Who to follow, and how alerts reach you
The right agency, its verified contacts, the state alerting programme, and the free no-signup layer.
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Plan-specific guidance
The official state pages worth bookmarking, each with a one-line “what this is for”.
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Legal & document checklist
The state's statutes and forms, the insurance pieces unique to that state, and the not-legal-advice note.
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Source links
Every link on the page, in one place, plus what we left out on purpose and why.

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Document center

Track which documents exist — the ones this page told you to get — and where the originals live.

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State guidance now covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This page is general information, not legal, medical or insurance advice, and it never replaces instructions from your local officials.