FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

About this app

The official FEMA mobile app provides essential tools and information to help you prepare for, stay safe during, and recover from disasters. Empower yourself and your loved ones with critical resources at your fingertips.

Key Features:

- Timely and Relevant Alerts: Receive real-time weather and emergency alerts from the National Weather Service (NWS) and Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), tailored to your specified locations (up to five), utilizing zip code precision. Stay informed about potential hazards affecting the areas you care about.
- Comprehensive Preparedness Guidance: Access clear, concise information on how to prepare for various disasters. Learn how to develop a family emergency communication plan and build an effective emergency kit.
- Actionable Safety Advice: Understand immediate steps to take to protect yourself and your family during different types of emergencies.
- Disaster Recovery Assistance: Find answers to frequently asked questions about the disaster assistance process and locate FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers nearby.
- Accessibility Focused: Designed with accessibility in mind, the app is compatible with screen reader technology and adheres to federal accessibility standards.

Be proactive in ensuing your safety and resilience. Download the official FEMA App today to access vital information and resources when you need them most. It’s a free and essential tool for every individual and family.

If you have any questions, comments or ideas, we’d love to hear them. Contact us at [e-mail].

Important: Tornado alerts are a moving target using polygon tracking for accuracy. Real-time tornado alerts based on your current location are not currently offered in the FEMA app.

Ratings and reviews

UPDATE: It looks as though the update has worked! Hopefully, whatever bug caused the failure doesn't reoccur. :-) It used to work very well for emergency weather alerts, but recently I can't read them. I will get the notification in my bar, but if I click on it to try to get more info, the main app says that there are no weather alerts. Completely defeating the purpose for me.

After my phone's "Wireless Emergency Alerts" app quit working, for no apparent reason, I was looking for an alternative. This one seems to work with all the crazy weather we have had lately (notifications are the same as NWS). My big problem is the app says notifications are sent by TEXT message. The only way I get any messages is to connect to the internet and find if a watch/warning has been sent. To me, requiring internet service is not a text. I don't have unlimited data. What am I missing?

Sends out alerts as expected, but here's the issue. If I'm in another app (Facebook, e.g.), it won't override it, and there doesn't seem to be a way to get the alert within the actual app, so if you miss it... too bad. Also tried to pull up the app while roaming, and got a "no wifi" connection error. Who the hell has wifi during an emergency??? DO BETTER.

What’s new

Introducing targeted messaging in the FEMA app. This new feature allows FEMA to send timely, localized updates and important information to users based on their main location, helping deliver more relevant communication during emergencies.

For questions or comments, please reach out: [e-mail]