Disaster Preparation and Response for Homeowners
In preparing for natural and climate-based disasters, homeowners face a distinct set of challenges related to physically securing their property and limiting their liability for damage and loss. While homeowners may rely to a certain extent on local, city, and state agencies to provide pre- and post-disaster services, they ultimately are responsible for caring for their properties in disaster scenarios. This page is designed to help homeowners understand the steps they may take to reduce the impact from disasters on their home and property.
Natural and climate-based disasters take many forms, ranging from earthquakes, to floods, to hurricanes. Therefore, depending on which region of the country you live, your disaster mitigation and adaptation considerations will be reflective of your context.
Disaster-specific resources:
Flooding
Hurricanes/Storms/Tornados
Earthquakes
Response for Homeowners
In some ways, homeowners carrier the biggest burdens resulting from natural and climate-based disasters: they face potential displacement from their homes, unknown financial burdens, cleanup obligations and other pressures - but often lack guidance on how to address these issues in a proactive, pre-disaster way. This resource page is designed to help homeowners of older and historic homes make sense of the tasks they must undertake in the wake of a disaster in order to insure their safety and compliance while protecting the future of their property.
Disaster-specific resources:
Flooding
Hurricanes/Storms/Tornados
Earthquakes