Planning Considerations: Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place

This document supports state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in planning for evacuation and/or shelter-in-place protective actions. It summarizes characteristics that jurisdictions should consider when planning for evacuation and/or shelter-in-place operations and builds on Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans by providing unique considerations for development of evacuation and shelter in-place plans. In addition, this document contains job aids and checklists that jurisdictions can customize to meet their needs for all disasters regardless of scale.

Protective actions such as evacuation and shelter-in-place have become more important to emergency management operations in previous years, requiring a more comprehensive look at concepts and principles that plans should be built around and considerations that are critical to ensuring effective implementation, this document aims to provide this.