Home Supplies Checklist

Your home supplies are the most important supplies you have. You use them to feed your go bags, school kits, vehicle kits, shelter-in-place kit, and get-home bags. Building your home supplies can take time. Even once you have what you need, you need to monitor the items for expiration.

• Food: Food for at least three weeks for every member of the family, including pets and livestock.

• Water: 30 gallons of water per person and 15 gallons of water per pet and a way to filter and treat water.

• Fire extinguisher: One on each level of your home.

• Emergency power: Solar generator or a generator that you can charge/fuel up before an emergency.

• Prescriptions/medical supplies: Backups of prescription meds and supplies and written

• record of dosages.

• Emergency cash: Small bills are better.

• Under-the-bed supplies: Shoes, a hard hat, goggles, a flashlight, and work/leather gloves.

• Emergency communication plan and contact list.

• Family reunification plan and meeting points.

• Backup lighting: Flashlights, lanterns, and headlamps with extra batteries stored outside the

• device (to avoid battery acid leaks).

• Emergency toilet and sanitation supplies: Hand sanitizer, toilet paper, kitty litter, 5-gallon buckets, and heavy trash bags.

• Cooking equipment: Barbecue grill or camp stove (for outdoor use only) and fuel.

• Shelter: A tent, emergency blankets, and/or sleeping bags.

• Tools: Knife or multiuse tool, can opener, silcox key (for shutting off water and propane valves), and hatchet