Planning for Disaster
Pre-disaster recovery planning helps to facilitate the coordination of disaster recovery efforts before a disaster occurs. By developing and adopting a pre-disaster recovery plan before a disaster occurs, your community can:
- Establish clear lines of communication and responsibility across pertinent recovery stakeholders.
- Consider how you will manage important recovery issues before a disaster.
- Develop recovery capacity and leadership early on.
Research has shown that communities with pre-disaster recovery plans tend to recover more quickly, efficiently, and equitably than those without.
Pre-disaster recovery planning and resilience planning are about making an investment in the process. By initiating these conversations now, building strong local relationships with your community and resilience and recovery planning partners, and committing the time, funding, and staff needed to complete this work, you will ensure that your community is better prepared for disasters now and into the future.
The CRO has created the following resources to support you in your pre-disaster recovery planning efforts.
Pre-Disaster Recover Plan
CRO has put together steps to help create your community’s pre-disaster recovery plan.
Post-Disaster Recovery
After a disaster, once the impacts are known and resources are identified, your community can develop a post-disaster recovery plan that will make specific policy decisions. For more information about the recovery planning process post-event, see the Post-Disaster Recovery Toolkit. Disaster recovery includes such activities as rebuilding or restoring infrastructure, planning and providing interim and long-term housing solutions, promoting economic development, identifying and implementing risk reduction and resilience building opportunities, and restoring natural and cultural resources, among others.