Emergency blanket
A complete beginner's walkthrough for using a mylar/space emergency blanket to fend off hypothermia and shock, and for setting up your whole…
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Learn emergency preparedness, one step at a time
Short lessons, real certifications, and step-by-step capability ladders that raise your RedyScore™. Start free and climb at your own pace.
Capability ladders
Step-by-step skill and gear progressions: 22 ladders and 120 hands-on rungs, each pairing one skill with the exact gear.
ExploreHow the RedyScore works
What your emergency readiness score measures, what the bands mean, and exactly how to raise it.
ExploreData and sources
The 38 live official feeds behind your score, plus the guidelines and sources behind every lesson.
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Lessons that pay off in the real world
Every course builds a specific capability, and every finished lesson moves your RedyScore™. Follow your plan's picks or browse the whole library in the app.
Fire basics & safety (the fire triangle)
Understand what every fire needs, heat, fuel, and oxygen, and the safety rules that keep a warming fire from becoming an emergency.…
Stay warm at home (shelter in place)
The shelter emergency you will actually face: the heat goes out in winter. Learn to turn one room of your own home…
The three-layer system
Clothing is the shelter you're already wearing. Master the three-layer system, a wicking base, an insulating mid, and a wind/rain shell, and…
Security mindset & risk assessment
Before buying a single lock or camera, learn to see your home the way a burglar does: walk your own perimeter, find…
Multitool & core hand tools
The everyday layer of repair capability: a quality multitool on or near you, plus the seven-tool home kit, hammer, screwdrivers, adjustable wrench,…
Evacuation plan & routes
A guided, branching walkthrough that takes you and your whole household from "we'd figure it out" to a real, written, practiced evacuation…
Everyday Carry (EDC)
The small set of essentials you keep on your body or in your pockets every single day, so a sudden evacuation, blackout,…
Read a paper map
The foundation of navigating when GPS and cell are down: reading a paper topographic or road map fluently, scale, legend symbols, contour…
Household roles & responsibilities
A plan only works if every person in the household knows their job before anything happens. This rung assigns a specific, age-appropriate…
The Rule of Threes (priorities under stress)
One mental model that orders every emergency decision you will ever make: roughly three minutes without air, three hours without shelter in…
Store water (1 gallon per person per day)
The foundation of water security: enough safe water already sitting in your home before anything goes wrong. One gallon per person per…
Three-day food baseline
A guided walkthrough to build the universal first rung of supply readiness: a 3-day (72-hour) stash of drinking water plus no-cook, ready-to-eat…
Drying basics: herbs & jerky
The zero-barrier entry to food preservation: hang-dry your own herbs and turn lean meat into shelf-stable jerky with an oven or basic…
The golden rules of foraging
The safety frame that governs every rung above it: never eat a wild plant without 100% positive identification, know why the survival-fiction…
Fishing basics (licensed)
The most accessible wild protein there is: with a license, a cheap rod, and a little know-how, most people can put a…
Batteries, lights & a charged phone
The first rung of power continuity: a battery- or hand-crank flashlight for every person, the right spare batteries stored well, a wind-up…
Cell & Text Fallbacks: Getting a Message Out - for You and Your Group - When the Network is Buckling
A guided, do-this-then-that walkthrough that gets a beginner AND their household fully set up to stay reachable in a disaster: text instead…
Your trusted circle
Preparedness starts with people: name the three to five nearby neighbors, family members, and friends you would genuinely call in a crisis,…
A real first-aid kit (and knowing it)
The floor of the First Aid ladder: a genuinely stocked first-aid kit you have actually opened, organized, and can navigate in the…
Hand hygiene & supplies stock
Master the single highest-impact health behavior in any disaster, proper handwashing at the right moments, and stock soap, sanitizer, and wipes at…
Baseline emergency fitness
Read your emergency plan as a physical job description: miles on foot to an assembly point, dark stairwells when the elevator is…
Safe room / semi-permanent build
This is the top of the shelter ladder: a purpose-built, engineered structure rated to a life-safety standard against an extreme hazard, in…
Mastery: any conditions, extinguish & teach
The capstone: make fire reliably across methods and weather, put it dead-out every time, and teach the whole household to do the…
Long-term & group shelter
Turn a one-night survival shelter into a livable multi-day camp, raised sleeping platforms, drainage, heat retention, and group-sized structures, and learn the…
An emergency wardrobe for your climate
Turn the layering knowledge from the earlier rungs into a standing household system: a climate-matched clothing set for every person, staged with…
Firearms: training & lawful ownership (region-gated)
Where the law allows and a household deliberately chooses it, a firearm enters the preparedness picture through the front door: certified training…
Improvise & fabricate
Make what you don't have: lash and join salvaged timber into working structures, use levers and rollers to move loads no person…
Livestock & large-animal evacuation
Build a standing, year-round capability to move horses and livestock to safety: pre-staged transport (a roadworthy trailer or pre-arranged hauling), animals trained…
INCH Bag (Indefinite)
The capstone go-bag for indefinite self-sufficiency: an "I'm Never Coming Home" kit built around durable shelter, water tools, food procurement, and the…
Offline digital navigation (with battery discipline)
Turn your phone or a dedicated GPS receiver into a genuine backup navigator: offline maps downloaded before you need them, strict battery…
Kids: teach, don't scare
Turn the youngest members of the household from passengers into participants: age-appropriate skills, memorized essentials, a comfort item in the kit, and…
Review & rotate (the maintenance habit)
Readiness decays quietly: water goes flat, food and medications expire, batteries self-discharge, kids outgrow the clothes in the go-bag, and documents go…
Storage rotation & long-term supply
Stored water is only as good as its upkeep: this rung turns a one-time stockpile into a permanent, always-fresh supply through a…
Calorie & nutrition planning
Graduate from counting cans to counting calories: size your food store against what your household actually burns in a crisis, balance the…
Root cellaring & no-power storage
Keep fresh produce edible for months with no power at all: by matching each crop to the cold-moist or cool-dry zone it…
Process & preserve wild foods
Turn a foraged haul into food that is actually safe and keepable: leach the bitter tannins out of acorns, dry greens and…
Primitive methods (emergency-only knowledge)
The honest capstone: what improvised harvesting, bent-pin hooks, hand-lines, figure-4 deadfalls, snares, actually is, why it is illegal for routine use nearly…
Whole-home backup
A guided walkthrough to plan, size, procure, and safely commission a permanently installed home backup system - a home battery, an automatic…
Meshtastic & Off-Grid Mesh Data: Get Your Whole Group On the Mesh
A hands-on, branching walkthrough that takes a non-technical person from an unboxed LoRa node (Heltec V3, RAK WisBlock) all the way to…
CERT & community exercises
The capstone rung: get certified through FEMA's Community Emergency Response Team program, put your neighborhood plan to the test in real drills,…
When help is overwhelmed: triage & CERT
In a big disaster there are more injured people than responders, and the everyday rule of "focus everything on one patient" flips…
Illness prevention in shelters & groups
When people concentrate, a full house, a neighbor's basement, a community shelter, illness becomes the second disaster. This rung is the discipline…
Psychological first aid for your household
The capstone of personal readiness: helping the people around you stay steady after the event. Psychological first aid is a learnable, evidence-informed…
Real certifications
Official certifications from sources like FEMA and the American Red Cross are tracked right next to your plan, so the credentials you earn count toward your readiness. Organizations get a clear report of which team members hold which certifications, making training gaps easy to spot.
Start with the next rung, not the whole mountain
Open GetRedy, see where you stand, and let your plan point at the one lesson that raises your score next.