Evacuation plan and go bag checklists for your whole household

This evacuation plan helps your household decide in advance where to go, what to take and how to reach each other when a storm, wildfire or flood arrives. It has 30 undated pages you complete by hand, covering routes and meeting places, a contact outside your area, go bag lists for adults, kids, pets and the car, a checklist of key documents, a medications list, home shutoffs, a plan for power cuts, a shelter-in-place checklist, a log for practice drills and a review each season.

You get a US Letter PDF and an A4 PDF. Download them right away and print at home. Nothing is mailed.

How a written evacuation plan calms the hardest moments

The whole household works from the same answers: three meeting places, one contact out of the area to text, a main route and a backup, and the person who collects the kids. The leaving checklist sorts what to grab into 5 minutes, 15 minutes and an hour, so nobody freezes in the hallway wondering what counts.

Each go bag page, for an adult, a child, a pet and the car, starts with suggested items and leaves lines for your own, along with a packed on date and a check again date. Once the plan is on paper, the drill log and the seasonal review keep it current, so the bags never end up with stale food or clothes that no longer fit.

Who these emergency planning pages are for

• Families living where hurricanes, wildfires, floods or tornadoes happen who want a plan in writing before the season begins
• Parents who want children, sitters and grandparents to know the meeting places and the contact outside the area
• Pet owners who need carriers, food and records ready to leave with everyone else
• Renters, new homeowners and anyone new to an area putting together a go bag for the first time
• Homes caring for an older relative or someone whose medical equipment needs power

Design and printing

• Elegant, minimalist look: white pages and soft blush pink touches that use very little ink
• Generous margins all around, so a home printer will not clip anything
• Two portrait sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• Undated, so it fits any year and can be updated each season
• Separate go bag pages for adults, kids, pets and the car, so you can print a list for every bag
• Dot grid spaces to draw your route, your escape plan and your shutoff map
• Use it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the evacuation plan: 30 pages

1. 1Cover listing the contents
2. 2Getting started, the plan in five steps, a leave immediately if checklist, where the binder is kept, progress so far and questions to research
3. 3The household, a 7 row table for each name, age, mobile number, work or school and what others need to know, details about the home, who helps whom, neighbors who might need help and neighbors who can help you
4. 4Communication plan, with a contact outside the area plus a backup, ways to reach each other, what to do if phones are down, a contact card checklist and your check-in message
5. 5Emergency contacts, 16 rows (emergency services, the non-emergency lines for police and fire, doctor, pharmacy, hospital, vet, insurance, the power, gas and water companies, landlord, work, school, neighbor), local official information and where the numbers are stored
6. 6Risks and alerts, a table of 10 hazards rated low, medium or high with the season and the first step for each, your evacuation zone, the alerts you signed up for and a note explaining a watch, a warning and an evacuation order
7. 7Meeting places just outside the home, in the neighborhood and out of town, a 5 row pick-up table for school, daycare and work, an everyone knows checklist and notes for kids
8. 8Evacuation routes, the destination details, a main route and a backup route in 6 steps, a dot grid space to draw the route and notes for the road
9. 9Home escape plan, a large dot grid space to draw your floor plan, a table with two exits from each room and an escape checklist
10. 10Leaving checklist split into 5 minutes, 15 minutes and an hour, what to do before driving off and the note you leave at home
11. 11Where we will stay, a 6 row table of family, friends, hotels and shelters with boxes for pets allowed, what to do before arriving, shelter notes, a budget for a few nights and who knows where you went
12. 12Adult go bag checklist grouped into water and food, light and power, health and hygiene, clothes and comfort, documents and money, tools and extras, and personal items
13. 13Child go bag checklist grouped into comfort and calm, food and drinks, clothes and care, and health, plus a child ID card with 10 fields and things to tell your child
14. 14Pet go bag checklist grouped into food and water, gear, health, ID and comfort, plus pet details and a space for a photo
15. 15Car emergency kit, with checklists for safety, comfort, the road and car documents, and a 4 row log of kit checks
16. 16Emergency supplies at home, a water calculator, sections for water and food, light, heat and power, health and sanitation, and tools, plus where the kit is stored
17. 17Supply rotation log, 18 rows for the item, quantity, location, expiry and the date replaced, plus use soon and buy next
18. 18Checklist of key documents (copies), 17 rows showing where each original is kept, with boxes for copy packed and digital copy
19. 19Documents and valuables, where originals are kept, digital backups with a line for a password hint, a 6 row table of valuables to grab, things that cannot be replaced and a home inventory checklist
20. 20Medications list, 13 rows for the person, medicine, dose, timing, prescriber and refill, plus pharmacy details and anything that needs to stay cold or special care
21. 21Medical and access needs, a 6 row table of health details, devices that rely on power, equipment to bring, mobility and sensory needs, and what responders should know
22. 22Pet emergency information, a 5 row table of pets with microchip and medications, vet and care, places that welcome pets, who can collect your pets and a ready to leave checklist
23. 23Home shutoffs for water, gas and electricity, a dot grid map to mark them and a log for practicing
24. 24Power outage plan, checklists for before and during a cut, your power plan, what to do when it comes back and a 4 row outage log
25. 25Shelter-in-place checklist, steps for when you are told to stay inside, your shelter rooms, a checklist for the room kit and notes
26. 26Storms and floods, checklists for before the season, when a storm is on the way, getting flood ready and during a flood, plus your notes
27. 27Wildfire and smoke, checklists for before fire season, when fire is close and smoky days, your notes and what you will take first
28. 28Returning home safely, checklists for before you go in and once inside, insurance claim details, getting ready again and lessons learned
29. 29Practice drill log, 12 rows for the date, the drill, who joined, the time and what to improve, plus drill ideas and the next drill
30. 30Seasonal review, checklists for spring, summer, fall and winter, a list for every review and a record of reviews

What you download

• Evacuation Plan & Go Bag Checklist in US Letter, a 30 page PDF
• Evacuation Plan & Go Bag Checklist in A4, a 30 page PDF
• Read Me First, a brief printing guide (PDF)

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• The PDF is designed for printing rather than as a hyperlinked digital planner, though most note taking apps will let you import it and write on the pages.
• You are buying a digital file. Nothing physical is sent.
• Colors may look a little different on your screen than on paper.
• For your personal use only. Sharing, reselling or passing the files on is not allowed.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If a file will not open or print properly, email us and we will help quickly.
• These pages help you organize. Always follow official local emergency guidance and evacuation orders, and call emergency services when there is an emergency. It is not medical, veterinary or safety advice.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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