4.4
5.57K reviews
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Everyone
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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 fema-app@fema.dhs.gov.

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.
Updated on
Jun 25, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
5.34K reviews
A Google user
September 20, 2018
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.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
September 19, 2018
Hi Walter, thank you for your comment. Please make sure you are running the latest version (2.9.5), which should correct the bug that was causing alert details to not appear. You may need to uninstall & reinstall the app, and re-enter your locations. For future versions, we will notify users that an update is available.
A Google user
September 1, 2019
I would give it a zero, but that's not an option. I just found out about this app, and being in the path of hurricane Dorian, thought it would be a good app to have. However, it doesn't search/recognize my location when i try to enter it for alerts, making it pretty useless to me. Edited to add: after the 5th install, i was finally able to add a location, so i bumped up the stars.
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A Google user
December 19, 2018
The app has had its ups and downs, but it was working for a while. Now it has stopped sending notifications, which makes it useless unless you want to open the app and check each location to see if there have been any alerts. The point is to GET the alerts, not have to keep checking to see if there have been any. 12/18/18 Still was not getting a single alert... Uninstalled, downloaded again -- working now!
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What’s new

- More Precise Alerts with the implementation of zip codes for your locations.
- Updated UI/UX for a smoother experience adding and deleting locations.
- Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) listings now display "Temporarily Closed" when applicable.
- Added a new Disaster Distress Helpline page for emotional well-being after disasters.