Know what disasters could affect your area

For our planning efforts we use the following list of hazards that could potentially impact Yakima County.

Natural

• Avalanche
• Animal Disease Outbreak
• Drought
• Earthquake
• Epidemic
• Flood
• Landslide
• Pandemic
• Volcanic Eruption
• Wildfire
• Winter Storm

Technological

• Airplane Crash
• Dam Failure
• Levee Failure
• Hazardous Materials Release
• Power Failure
• Radiological Release
• Train Derailment

Human-caused

• Chemical/Biological/Nuclear Incident
• Cyber incident
• School and Workplace Violence

Know How to get Emergency Alerts

We use an system called Alert Yakima for notifications during disasters.  

Sign-up for email/cell phone disaster notification. Be sure to add your address so when evacuations  are done we can capture your phone from the map.  Alert Yakima Signup/Login