Emergency Management
Activate personnel, coordinate volunteers and partner agencies, maintain a common operating picture, and document everything for after-action reports and reimbursement. Resgrid gives county and municipal EMAs big-platform capability on a small-jurisdiction budget.
Free for up to 10 users & units • No contracts • Set up in about 15 minutes
Most emergency management offices are one to three people expected to coordinate everything from storm activations to volunteer programs — with software priced for state agencies.
EOC activations start with an hour of phone calls to staff, volunteers, and partner agencies — with no record of who was reached or who's actually coming.
During events, resource status lives on a whiteboard, in email threads, and in the coordinator's head. Nobody can see deployed teams and assets in one place.
Crisis management platforms are priced and scoped for state EOCs. Small jurisdictions end up on spreadsheets and shared drives instead.
FEMA public assistance and grant reporting demand personnel hours, activity logs, and timelines that must be reconstructed weeks after the event.
Activation, coordination, tracking, and documentation on one platform your whole volunteer base can use from their phones.
Activate EOC staff, CERT, VOAD partners, and public works by push, SMS, email, and voice call in one action. Availability responses tell you what you can actually field.
Live map of deployed personnel, units, and their statuses. Track field teams via the Responder and Unit apps or hardware GPS through Traccar integration.
Groups for departments, volunteer programs, and partner agencies with role-based dispatching. Coordinate across organizations while each keeps its own structure.
Timestamped activity logs, notes with GPS and attachments, and complete incident records exportable to PDF — your after-action report and FEMA documentation build themselves during the event.
Schedule exercises, trainings, and meetings with RSVP and attendance. Volunteer hours and participation records accumulate for grant compliance automatically.
Run Resgrid on county infrastructure if policy requires, or use our hosted cloud. Open source means no procurement lock-in and full data ownership.
Small EMAs coordinate real disasters with tools that were never designed for it — or price quotes that end conversations.
What you use today | Examples | Typical cost | Included in Resgrid |
|---|---|---|---|
Crisis management platform | WebEOC-class tools (small-EMA use) | $10,000–$40,000+ / yr | Activation, tracking & documentation |
Mass notification (staff/volunteer) | Everbridge, CodeRED staff modules | $3,000–$10,000+ / yr | Multi-channel activations included |
Phone trees & email chains | Call-down lists, distribution lists | An hour per activation | One-action activation with responses |
Whiteboard resource tracking | EOC whiteboards, T-cards | No record after the event | Live statuses with full audit trail |
Hour & activity reconstruction | Spreadsheets, sign-in sheets | Weeks of post-event work | Automatic timestamped logging |
Enterprise EOC and notification platforms commonly quote $10,000–$50,000 per year — beyond most municipal EMA budgets. Resgrid delivers activation, coordination, and documentation at entity-based pricing a small jurisdiction can approve.
Faster activations, cleaner documentation, and reimbursement claims backed by real records.
vs. typical enterprise EOC platforms
to full multi-agency activation
of event activity auto-documented
of AAR & reimbursement prep eliminated
Savings estimates based on typical published pricing for crisis management and mass notification platforms; results vary by jurisdiction size and event tempo.