Travel safely through almost anything.
Long-form survival guides for travellers, written from primary sources, USGS, FEMA, WHO, NOAA, the Red Cross, and the country agencies that publish the alerts you should be reading. No AI flavoured filler. Every claim cites a source you can re-verify.
What 0 to 100 actually means, what the sub-scores tell you, and how to interpret the 7 day trend at a glance.
What the UK's four advisory levels mean in plain language, and how they compare with the US State Department, Smartraveller, and Canada's travel.gc.ca.
A non technical walkthrough of the algorithm, six sub-scores, advisory blending, editorial overrides, and why every change is versioned.
When something goes wrong, here’s what to do.
Each topic is a curated set of long form guides. Live entries are fully written and citation ready. Drafts ship every Friday with the Weekly Briefing.
How seismic risk actually presents on the ground, what to do in the first sixty seconds, and the regional briefings travellers should pack.
- How to survive an earthquake while travellingLive
- Tsunami evacuation, for travellersLive
- Aftershocks: what the next 72 hours look likeLive
Same storm, three names, three regional warning systems. How to plan a trip into a season, when to actually leave, and what hotels owe you when they don't.
- Reading the NOAA cone of uncertaintyLive
- Surviving hurricane season as a travellerLive
What evacuation orders actually mean, the difference between flame and smoke risk, and the country specific apps that issue real time alerts.
- How to survive a wildfire while travellingLive
- Smoke days: when to leave a cityLive
Six inches of water moves a car. Twelve sweeps it away. The decisions that get travellers killed in floods are almost all made before the water arrives.
- Flash-flood survival, for travellersLive
- Driving in monsoon AsiaLive
Lava is rarely the killer. Pyroclastic flows, lahars, and ashfall are. How to read a volcano alert level when you're standing 30km from one.
- Volcanic eruption survival, for travellersLive
- Reading VAAC alerts as a flyerLive
The traveller-relevant infectious diseases, what WHO Disease Outbreak News is for, and the vaccines that genuinely move the needle.
- When an outbreak hits a destination you've bookedLive
- Vaccines that actually move the needle for travellersLive
How to read a deteriorating political situation from outside it, when an advisory turns from caution to do-not-travel, and the practical evacuation playbook.
- Reading political instability before you flyLive
- Border closures: what to do when one is announcedLive
AQI bands explained for non-locals, when 'shamal dust' or 'wildfire smoke' should change your plans, and how to travel safely through a heat dome.
- Air quality, for travellersLive
- Heat-dome travel: cities that get dangerousLive
Cross-cutting urban discipline that applies in every major destination: pickpocket patterns, taxi-vs-ride-share, hotel-room habits, crowd-density awareness, the specific things travellers consistently get wrong.
- Staying safe in cities, anywhereLive
Primary sources first. Always.
Every guide is built from official agency guidance, USGS, NOAA, WHO, CDC, FEMA, the Red Cross/IFRC, and the country agencies that issue alerts in the relevant region. We link the source for each substantive claim. We do not paraphrase travel-industry blogs.
Reviewed at least annually.
Each guide carries a published date and a last-reviewed date. When agencies update their guidance materially, we update the guide and bump the review date, every change is auditable in /changelog.
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These guides are free to cite, link, and adapt for non-commercial education. Press desks and travel programs welcome. Editorial enquiries: [email protected].