🇮🇹 Italy

What your government recommends

The Italy government has not published a number of days to be ready for (or we have not found one yet). See what other governments recommend.

Water: At least 1 litre per person per day (evacuation bag)^[2]

Food: Keep stocks of water and food at home and an emergency kit. Besides your normal groceries, keep a good stock of drinking water in mineral-water bottles or jerrycans: drinking water is the most important item in an emergency, as the mains could be damaged or polluted. For a bag you take when leaving home: non-perishable food such as energy bars, dried fruit, salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and pre-cooked or freeze-dried food. No official number of days is given.^[1][2][3]

Recommended items

• ✓Stock of drinking water (bottled or in jerrycans)^[2][3]
• ✓Non-perishable food^[2][3]
• ✓First aid kit and essential medicines (with copies of prescriptions)^[1][2][3]
• ✓Torch with spare batteries^[1][2][3]
• ✓Battery-powered radio and spare batteries^[1][3]
• ✓Copies of identity documents^[1][2][3]
• ✓Spare house keys^[2][3]
• ✓Cash and valuables^[2][3]
• ✓Sturdy shoes and a change of warm clothes, light raincoat (waterproof, windproof jacket)^[2][3]
• ✓Multipurpose knife, can and bottle opener^[2][3]
• ✓Matches, plastic bags, tape, cloths, disposable plates and cutlery, a gas stove^[2]
• ✓Paper and pen^[3]
• ✓A list of family members with phone numbers and basic health data (blood group, conditions, allergies, usual medicines)^[2]

Special items

• Potassium iodide tablets — Do not buy them in advance. Health authorities may hand them out only after a serious accident at a nuclear plant near the Italian border, and only for certain groups (babies/children, teenagers, people aged 18–40, pregnant or breastfeeding women). Follow the authorities' instructions through official channels.^[4]

Official videos

Good to know

• • Italy's official guidance does not set a number of days to be ready for; it says to keep stocks of water and food at home and an emergency kit.
• • The 1 litre per day water figure is from an older (2012) guide and is for a bag you take if you must leave home.
• • IT-alert currently covers only a few specific hazards (nuclear/radiological, major industrial accidents, dam collapse, certain volcanoes); for other emergencies follow radio, TV and your municipality.
• • Find out what your municipality's civil protection plan says about danger zones, evacuation routes and waiting areas.