JaxReady

City of Jacksonville, Florida

About this app

Are you ready? JaxReady— brought to you by the Emergency Preparedness Division and Information Technologies Division of the City of Jacksonville, Florida— will help you monitor weather threats and plan for evacuation in the event of a natural disaster. JaxReady provides access to current threat levels, weather reports, and wildfire updates, as well as up-to-the-minute news feeds for emergency preparedness and evacuation.
Features
• GPS functionality for locating your Evacuation Zone
• Current Emergency (EOC) Activation Level, Weather Threat Level, and Fire Danger Index based upon your geolocation
• Links to special needs registration for those with special medical needs during an evacuation
• Weather and fire news
• Weather, wildfire, and drought index maps

Ratings and reviews

I was apprehensive about installing this app based on past reviews. I contacted the city and they assured me it was working as intended. I did go ahead and install it. I was able to test most features to my satisfaction. I had no issues with the operation of the app or of my cell phone while using the app. The app does appear to function as intended. Due to there not being any current weather emergency I was NOT able to view an active list of available shelters. The radar does work but the satellite information did not. I don't know if this is a temporary or long term issue.

Poorly optimized and in desperate need of maintenance (touch icons, loading times, scrolling issues & autofill function are a few I noticed off the bat). Amazing concept (I wish other states would adopt a similar system) and the body is there it just needs the TLC desperately.

It has a high traffic, so is not useful. In my opinion if you create an app for emergency try to get it to handle the area that was intended for.

What's new

Update links on the EOC and Weather Page.
Update to Target Android 13.0 (Tiramisu )