About this site¶
Hurricane Guide exists for one reason: to help ordinary people get ready for a hurricane, stay safe while it passes, and recover afterwards. It is free, has no ads, and works on any phone, even without a connection.
What this site is¶
The guides here gather the advice that emergency managers, the National Hurricane Center, national disaster agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent, and public health agencies give every season, and put it in plain language that a tired person can act on. Every page is short on purpose. Where a topic needs more depth, the page links to the official source.
The site is organized the way a storm unfolds: understanding the risk, planning ahead, gathering supplies, caring for animals, the days before landfall, the storm itself, and the long stretch afterwards.
Hurricane Guide covers every country that hurricanes reach: the United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Bermuda, and Canada. The guides are written to work wherever you live. Local help pages with exact numbers and agencies are available now for the United States and more than 30 countries and territories in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, from Bermuda and the Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago. The Local help page lists every place covered, and more are coming.
What this site is not¶
- It is not a forecast. For the current forecast, use the National Hurricane Center and your national weather service.
- It is not your local emergency office. Evacuation orders, shelter openings, curfews and boil water notices come from your local government. Their word always wins over anything written here.
- It is not medical, legal or financial advice. It can help you ask better questions of the people who are.
How the guides are written¶
Each guide follows a written style guide: friendly and professional, plain words, short sentences, actions before explanations. Numbers and thresholds come from official public guidance, and where a fact is uncertain, the page says so or leaves it out. Guidance changes over time, so pages are reviewed and updated between seasons.
Translations¶
Hurricane Guide is available in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese and Portuguese, because those are languages many people speak in the places hurricanes reach. The English version is the source. The translations were produced with the help of automated translation and are reviewed by people as time and volunteers allow. If you find a sentence that reads wrongly or could be clearer in your language, please tell us so we can fix it.
Privacy¶
The site does not use tracking cookies, analytics scripts or third party fonts. It stores copies of its own pages and the state of your checklists on your device so they work offline. Nothing you tick or read is sent anywhere.
Report a mistake or suggest a topic¶
If something here is wrong, out of date, or missing, we want to know. Write to Keith Myers at Keith@KMyers.me. The address is also at the bottom of every page. Corrections that affect safety are made first.
Credits¶
Built with the Zensical static site generator. The content is written for people in every country that hurricanes reach, and much of it applies anywhere tropical cyclones happen.