The Household Count
Water and food count
Ready.gov says one gallon per person per day for several days, for drinking and sanitation. This sheet finishes three days first. A two-week home supply is a later pass. Write only the people who live here. Leave a row blank when it does not apply.
Your house
Pet food and water stay “several days.” Ready.gov does not print a gallon number for a pet. Do not borrow a state figure unless that is the program you are following on purpose.
One food this house already eats
Ready.gov says a several-day supply of non-perishable food the family will eat. It lists canned meats, fruits, and vegetables, and it does not count them. There is no calorie target. Write the food, then the rate this house already knows.
Toothpaste
Fuel
Keep a half tank in the car. Fill it if an evacuation is likely. Take one car per family. This sheet does not print gallons for that tank. The tank size is on the car.
Fill the generator lines only if this house already owns one. It stays outside and away from the home. Never indoors, never in a garage, and never tied into the house wiring. Those gallons are not the first purchase.
Later pass, after the three days are stored
Fourteen days is the Red Cross home-supply horizon, not the first job. Children, nursing parents, illness, and extreme heat can need more than one gallon. There is no calorie target on this sheet.
Fiction. Not your house.
An apartment. Three people, one of them an infant. One dog. One refrigerated medicine.
3 people × 1 gallon × 3 days = 9 gallons for the people, in sealed jugs in the hall closet. The dog gets several days of the food and water that dog already eats. No gallon is printed for the dog. The refrigerated medicine is named on the medicine sheet, with a cooler plan. This page does not name the medicine or the dose.
Sources checked for this draft: Ready.gov Build a Kit, 1 July 2026; Ready.gov water page, 22 February 2021; Ready.gov pets page, 20 March 2026; American Red Cross survival-kit page, three-day go kit and two-week home supply. The Household Count is not an official FEMA or Red Cross publication. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911. This file is not on sale.