RallyPack — free emergency preparedness
RallyPack helps households, neighborhoods and organizations prepare for
wildfire, hurricane, flood and tornado, and for the animals and family
members who depend on them. Every feature is free and open source.
Plan to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours
Assume your household may be on its own for at least 72 hours, and build
toward 7 to 14 days where wildfire, extreme heat, outages or remote access
make that realistic. Help may be delayed, shelters may be full or distant,
and normal services may be unavailable. Plan for the minimum rather than
the promise of aid.
Wildfire risk is year-round
Your region may still have peak wildfire months, but dangerous fire
conditions can recur outside the historic season. Prepare on a continuous
readiness cycle, and raise readiness whenever heat, drought, wind, low
humidity, holidays, festivals or utility shutoff conditions converge.
Wildfire and water stress reinforce each other
Drought, heat and wind dry vegetation and make fires harder to control.
During major incidents, water sources and municipal systems may be strained,
while fire ash and sediment can contaminate watersheds and increase
treatment costs afterward. Drinking-water networks are built for drinking
water and normal fire protection — they should not be assumed to suppress a
fast-moving wildfire at community scale. Prepare for evacuation and outages
without assuming water, hydrants, shelters or outside assistance will
remain available.
RallyPack wildfire trend report — methodology
The RallyPack 10-year global wildfire report counts large and notable
wildfire incidents reported by national and state fire agencies, not every
fire response. Small, quickly contained fires are intentionally excluded,
so counts are far lower than official all-incident totals. Causes are
standardized for display while raw labels are preserved on each record.
Fires that smoulder and re-ignite may be recorded as separate incidents,
which can inflate counts. Hectares represent burned area across recorded
incidents, not a global total.
Sources
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FEMA — evacuation and shelter-in-place planning considerations (fema.gov)
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US National Interagency Fire Center — large-fire incident data (nifc.gov)
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CAL FIRE — California incident and cause data (fire.ca.gov)
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Copernicus EFFIS — European forest fire information system (effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu)
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NOAA / National Weather Service — hurricane and severe weather alerts (weather.gov)
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US Drought Monitor / Drought.gov — drought and wildfire-management conditions (drought.gov)
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US Forest Service — drought interactions with wildfire and water supply (fs.usda.gov)
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USGS — post-fire water quality and watershed impacts (usgs.gov)
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NFPA — fireworks ignition and home fire loss estimates (nfpa.org)
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American Red Cross — household preparedness guidance (redcross.org)
Take the free readiness quiz, see how your area compares on the readiness
map, or create a free account at
rallypack.org
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