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Create Your Wildfire Action Plan
The recommendations in this guide were designed to help create a safer environment for you and your family and help prepare you for wildfire.
Create Your Wildfire Action Plan
Put together your emergency supply kit long before a wildfire or other disaster occurs and keep it easily accessible so you can take it with you when you have to evacuate. You should have 1 Go Bag per person in your household.
Put together your emergency supply kit long before a wildfire or other disaster occurs and keep it easily accessible so you can take it with you when you have to evacuate. You should have one (1) Go Bag per person in your household.
A good way to remember the contents to pack is the 5-P method:
A good way to remember the contents to pack is the 5-P method:
- People
- Pets
- Pills
- Papers
- Photos
- Water – One gallon/person/day (3 day supply for evacuation).
- Food – non-perishable (3 day supply for evacuation).
- Battery powered or hand crank radio tuned to a local news channel.
- Extra batteries.
- First aid kit.
- Medications (7 day supply).
- Multi-purpose tool.
- Sanitation and personal hygiene items (shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.).
- Copies of important documents in your to-go bag and stored away from the home (medication list, medical info, proof of address, deed/lease to the home, bank, IRS, trust, investments, passports, birth certificates, insurance policies, etc.)
- Computer back up files, posted on the cloud or saved on a thumb drive.
- Inventory of home contents. Consider making a list, utilizing a home-inventory app, or videotaping prior to an emergency. Store them on the cloud or keep them in a safe place away from your home.
- Photographs of the exterior of the house and landscape.
- Cell phone and charger.
- Family and emergency contact information.
- Extra cash, Credit/ATM Debit cards.
- Emergency blanket.
- Clothing for 3-5 days.
- Family heirlooms, photo albums and videos.
- Maps of the area.
- Medical supplies (hearing aids, with extra batteries, glasses, contact lenses, syringes, cane, etc.)
- Baby supplies (bottles, formula, baby food, wipes, diapers, etc.)
- Games and activities for children.
- Pet supplies (collar, leash, ID, food, carrier, bowl, medications, etc.)
- Ensure you have a picture of your animal in case they are lost during a wildfire.
- Two-way radios.
- Extra sets of car keys and house keys.
- Manual can opener.
- Evacuation route map marked with two evacuation routes (if possible).
If you anticipate an extended evacuation at an emergency shelter or your family is returning to a home without functioning electricity and water, these additional items for a disaster supplies kit will prove helpful:
- One gallon of water per person, per day stored in unbreakable containers and labeled with the storage date. Replace every six months.
- Supply of non-perishable packaged or canned foods with a hand-operated can opener.
- Anti-bacterial hand wipes or gel.
- First aid kit, including a first aid book.
- At least one blanket or sleeping bag per person.
- ABC-type fire extinguisher.
- Special items for infants, elderly or disabled family members.
- Large plastic trash bags, tarps and rain ponchos.
- A large trash can.
- Bar soap, liquid detergent and household bleach.
- Rubber gloves and duct tape.