About HurricanePrepping.com
We publish practical, household-level hurricane preparation guidance for people who live where storms make landfall — and we try to be specific where most storm advice is vague.
Why this site exists
Official hurricane guidance is accurate, thorough, and written for a national audience. It tells you to have an emergency kit and a plan. What it rarely tells you is how many gallons of water a family of four actually needs for a week, what a 5% hurricane deductible costs in real dollars, whether your generator can start a well pump, or how long you have before mold takes hold in a wet wall.
Those specifics are where preparation succeeds or fails. Our guides aim to close that gap: numbers, sequences, cost comparisons, and the decisions that have to be made months before a storm is named.
Where our information comes from
Our storm data comes directly from the NOAA National Hurricane Center. Our preparedness guidance is grounded in published guidance from NOAA, the National Weather Service, FEMA, the CDC, the American Red Cross, and state and county emergency management agencies, then translated into concrete household steps.
When something is uncertain or varies by jurisdiction — evacuation zones, insurance rules, shelter policies — we say so and point you to the authority that has the answer for your address.
What we build
- A readiness assessment that scores your household across supplies, planning, home protection, and documentation, and tells you what to fix first.
- Checklists you can work through and track, rather than a PDF that gets filed and forgotten.
- Live storm tracking pulled from official National Hurricane Center data.
- In-depth guides covering supplies, evacuation, insurance, home hardening, medical needs, and post-storm recovery.
Editorial approach
We write guides ourselves, review them against current official guidance, and update them when that guidance changes or when a season reveals something new. We do not publish speculative storm forecasts or repost unattributed model imagery — for active systems we point you to the National Hurricane Center advisory, which is always the authoritative product.
An important limitation
This site is an educational resource. It is not a substitute for official warnings, evacuation orders, or professional advice from an engineer, contractor, insurance agent, or physician. When your county emergency management office issues an order, that order overrides anything you read here. See our disclaimer for the full statement.
How the site is funded
HurricanePrepping.com is free to read. The site is supported by advertising, and creating a free account unlocks the personalized tracking tools. Advertising never determines what we recommend.
Get in touch
Corrections, questions, and suggestions are welcome — see our contact page. If you spot something inaccurate in a guide, we want to know.