The Household Count
Warnings and the stay-or-leave line
Write the hazards that can affect this address, how a warning will reach the people who live here, and what the local page says to do. A national script does not override a local order.
How a warning arrives
Wireless Emergency Alerts need no subscription and no fee. On older phones the setting may have to be turned on. Some carriers label them Government Alerts or Emergency Alert Messages. A child with a capable phone can receive them too. FEMA does not review, edit, or approve a local alert.
FEMA app, up to five places
Each hazard that applies here
Copy this block for each real local hazard. For the order, write one of these only if that is what the local page says: stay home, mass-care shelter, seal a room, or evacuate. Leave the block blank when the hazard does not apply.
To look up an open mass-care shelter at the time, text SHELTER and the ZIP code to 43362. Standard message rates apply. That lookup is not a promise of a bed. Sealing a room is a short step for bad outside air, and only when officials say so.
Fiction. Not your house.
The apartment sample does not name a city and does not name a disaster. The household writes the hazard from their own local page, and they write the order that page gives. This sheet has no national stay-or-leave line.
Sources checked for this draft: Ready.gov Make a Plan, 1 September 2026; Ready.gov Emergency Alerts, 27 May 2026; Ready.gov Shelter, 24 September 2026. Follow local officials. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911. This file is not on sale.