Comprehensive Guides
Preparedness Considerations
Houses of Worship & Schools
Pre-Disaster Recovery
Other Resources
Accomplished properly, planning provides a methodical way to engage the whole community in thinking through the lifecycle of a potential crisis, determining required capabilities and establishing a framework for roles and responsibilities. It shapes how a community envisions and shares a desired outcome, selects effective ways to achieve it and communicates expected results.
A shared planning community increases the likelihood of integration and synchronization, makes planning cycles more efficient and effective and makes plan maintenance easier.
We have resources to guide the way.
Have questions? Email the National Integration Center.
Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans
FEMA is seeking feedback on the recently updated “Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans.”
“Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans” provides guidelines on developing emergency operations plans and promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of community-based, risk-informed planning and decision making to help planners examine a threat or hazard and produce integrated, coordinated and synchronized plans.
Since the guidance was last revised in 2010, practitioners have identified lessons and successful practices from real-world events and exercises.
Significant changes have also occurred in national preparedness policy and doctrine that affect the planning community.
This draft includes revisions to align with new and updated policies and programs, provides additional tools that operationalizes the document, and maintains the flexibility and scalability of the document while expanding on the role of whole community partners.
The comment matrix can be used to capture any recommendations. Please provide any comments, or recommendations by the close of business on January 25, 2021. Email feedback or any questions to NPD-Planning@fema.dhs.gov.
Comment Matrix
Webinar Sessions
A series of 60-minute webinar sessions are scheduled to discuss changes to the CPG 101 and gather thoughts and recommendations on how to improve the document. These sessions will include facilitated discussions with stakeholders to help improve the existing draft. Advance registration is required and on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you require assistive accommodations to participate in these sessions, please email us at NPD-Planning@fema.dhs.gov. To register, click on the preferred session below.
Comprehensive Preparedness Guides (CPG)
CPG 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans
CPG 101 provides guidance on the fundamentals of planning and development of Emergency Operations Plans.
CPG 201: Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) Guide
CPG 201 provides guidance for conducting a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR).
CPG 502: Considerations for Fusion Center and Emergency Operations Center Coordination
CPG 502 outlines the information-sharing roles of fusion centers and emergency operations centers and identifies planning and coordination considerations each entity.
Planning Considerations
Disaster Housing
Guidance on national housing priorities, types of housing, key considerations and housing-specific planning recommendations that jurisdictions can apply when developing or improving housing plans. (Spanish)
Supply Chain Resilience Guide
Provides emergency managers with recommendations and best practices on how to analyze local supply chains and work with the private sector to enhance supply chain resilience using a five-phased approach.
Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
Identifies concepts and principles relevant to the development of related plans and the completion of a THIRA.
Engaging Faith-based and Community Organizations
Provides a methodology for emergency managers to engage and build partnerships with faith-based and community organizations in order to enhance resilience.
Disaster Financial Management Guide
Identifies the capabilities and activities necessary to prepare and successfully implement disaster financial management while maintaining fiscal responsibility throughout response and recovery operations.
Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place
Identifies relevant concepts, considerations, and principles that can inform jurisdictions in planning for evacuation and/or shelter-in-place protective actions.
COVID-19 Supplement for Planning Considerations: Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place
Provides COVID-19 related questions to key principles and critical considerations from “Planning Considerations: Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place.
Hazardous Materials Incidents
Provides officials with information and resources on hazardous materials, incident preparedness and response and practices to increase community resilience to those incidents.
Healthcare Facilities and Power Outages
Provides jurisdictions, utility owners/operators, and healthcare facilities with information and resources to improve resilience to power outages, integrate plans, and prioritize assistance during an outage.
Emergency Operation Plans – Houses of Worship and Schools
Houses of Worship
Guide on emergency operations planning, discussing actions that may be taken before, during and after an incident to reduce the impact on property and loss of life. It encourages houses of worship to develop an emergency operations plan.
Institutions of Higher Education
This guide outlines principles of emergency management planning for institutions of higher education, provides a process for the development of emergency operations plans and describes the content with those plans.
K-12 Schools
This guide provides recommendations in the development of plans not only to respond to an emergency, but also outlines how schools (K-12) can plan for preventing, protecting against, mitigating the impact of and recovering from these emergencies.
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guides
Tribal Governments
This guide prepares tribal governments for recovery efforts from future disasters by engaging with the whole community and planning for recovery activities that are comprehensive and long term.
Local Governments
This guide is designed to help local governments prepare for recovery from future disasters offering tools for public engagement, whole-community recovery, identification of existing recovery resources, and identifying outside partnerships that can help local governments build resilience.
State Governments
This guide helps states and territories prepare for recovery by developing pre-disaster recovery plans that follow a process to engage members of the whole community, develop recovery capabilities across government and nongovernmental partners and create an organizational framework for comprehensive recovery efforts.
Other Resources
Implementation of Community Lifelines
Lifelines enable the continuous operation of critical government and business functions and is essential to human health and safety or economic security.
Business Emergency Operations Center Quick Start Guidance
This guidance provides states, locals, tribes and territories with foundational concepts for establishing a BEOC to support their response and recovery operations for COVID-19.
Looking for resources on the National Preparedness Goal, the National Preparedness System and National Planning Frameworks? Visit the National Preparedness Resource Library.