Readiness is a checklist, not a vibe.
Start the free readiness checkEvery home lands somewhere between Unprepared and Storm-ready. The check tells you where, and what moves the marker.
Nobody thinks about this on a sunny day, which is exactly when it works. Most people land here after a near miss, a neighbor's blue tarp, or a forecast cone that came too close. Whatever brought you: the fixes are mostly cheap and boring, the expensive ones reward deciding early, and knowing your gaps costs three minutes. No commitment on the other side of the button, just a list.
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Storm Readiness Check
Fourteen quick questions about the house, the supplies, the papers, and the plan. A 0 to 100 score, your three biggest gaps ranked, and what each fix takes. Free.
Start the readiness check → Live · NWS + FEMA dataFlood Center
Live levels from the nearest NWS river gauges right now, plus every paid NFIP flood claim since 1978 from FEMA's public record. Area history, never a specific property.
Look up your ZIP → Live now · Official NOAA feedsLive Storm Center
Your ZIP's whole live picture at once: active NWS watches and warnings, current conditions and the 7-day forecast, the severe-weather outlook, air quality, and animated radar. Straight from the government feeds, no drama added.
Open the Storm Center → Live · Official NHC dataHurricane & Tropics Center
Every active storm with the National Hurricane Center's official cone, track, and outlook maps, plus every coastal watch and warning. The real cone, never a scary repost.
Track the tropics → Storm on the way?The 48-Hour Checklist
The calm, printable list for the two days before landfall: supplies, papers, the house, the final hours, and right after. Built to be shared in the group chat.
Open the checklist → Before you shopGenerator Sizing Helper
What actually needs power, what wattage that really means, and why you probably don't need the biggest one on the shelf.
Size it honestly → One shopping runSupply Calculator
Household size and days to cover, turned into a water, food, meds, and battery list you can shop from. Printable.
Build the list → The documented recordAddress Risk History
What has actually happened in an area: every federal disaster declaration for the county, the flood claims paid, thirty years of weather extremes, and the county risk index. A record, not a forecast.
Assemble the record → Free · Plain EnglishGuides & the insurance call
NFIP vs private flood, the percentage deductible, generator sizing honestly, the after-the-storm claims guide, and the ten-minute agent call, scripted.
Browse the guides →Guides for the questions the tools can't answer
Plain English, sourced where it counts, no email gate. Start with whichever question is actually yours.
Before the storm
- The difference between a hurricane watch and a warning, and what each one is asking you to do.
- A day-by-day prep timeline from five days out, so nothing lands on the last afternoon.
- How many gallons of water a family of four needs, with the arithmetic shown.
- Food that lasts without refrigeration when the power is out for days.
- 48-hour prep for renters and homeowners, because the lists are genuinely different.
Backup power
- How many watts your essentials actually draw, appliance by appliance, with starting surge.
- What size generator runs a fridge and a window AC at the same time.
- What a generator costs to run for 24 hours, in fuel and in maintenance.
- Portable or inverter for home backup, and when the price gap is worth it.
- Generator sizing without the upsell.
Flood, wind and the claim
- How to read your ZIP code's flood-claim history, and what it does not tell you.
- NFIP or private flood insurance, compared honestly.
- Whether damage counts as wind or flood, which decides who pays.
- The percentage hurricane deductible hiding on your declarations page.
- What to photograph before the storm so a claim goes smoothly after it.
All eighteen guides, with a line on each → Live conditions are on the Storm Center, and the animated radar shows the last hour of returns.