The alert is the easy part. CIVIC is the layer after it. Who is safe, who is stranded, who has no way to move, and what was decided as it unfolded. The prevention, the communication, and the record, on every phone in town. Built in Canada. Free for every household, in every province and territory.
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Anywhere in Canada
Wildfire Alert · Evac standby
Active fire 8 km northwest. Wind shifting south at 25 km/h. Mayor has issued evacuation standby for Britannia Road and the north-west cabins. Pack a bag.
Posted 22 min ago
Ella & Cliff notified. Your family knows you got the alert.
Your check-in buddy
DailyChecked in 2 h ago
One tap a day · auto when you walk
Annie Tucker · across the cove
Hasn’t checked in today
CIVIC by GNOSIS · Free for every household
Why this exists, in one number
When one province audited its municipalities, 9% had a current emergency plan. There is no reason to believe it is an outlier. Most of the communities we live in enter the next fire season, the next storm, the next evacuation with nothing on file: no call list, no mutual-aid arrangement, and no record afterward of who decided what.
Highway 63, Fort McMurray, May 2016. Eighty-eight thousand people drove out through this.
Every vehicle in this photo is a household. CIVIC exists so each one is accounted for.
Photo: DarrenRD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Wildfire smoke · Ontario, 2026Photo: Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0, resizedPrevention · Guidance · Risk Record
Three things to expect from CIVIC, before the next one hits.
A council clerk can put together a complete emergency plan in a single sitting, not a six-month consultant engagement. Hazards. Contacts. Mutual aid. The households that need looking after first. Done.
When something happens, the plan goes live. Mayor, fire chief, public works, police, all on the same page on their phones. Decisions captured as they are made. Residents reached on the channels they actually use.
By morning, there is a defensible record of who knew what, when, and what was done about it. For council. For the press. For the oversight body. And, when it matters most, for the family asking why.
Hurricane Fiona · 2022Image: NASA, public domainTwo halves, one platform
The town dashboard shows the live map. As residents confirm they are safe, the dots turn green. The dots that turn red are the households requesting help, flagging their needs by name: oxygen, mobility support, or a ride out.
Runs on ordinary phones. A clear view of the standby zone, the evacuation route, and the town's updates. When the alert comes, residents confirm they are safe or flag they need help.
Vulnerable populations
Most communities keep that answer in someone’s head. CIVIC makes it a registry, and it is the first thing we built. Residents register and consent. The community learns who is genuinely at risk, keeps that information secure and confidential, flags it to first responders, and reaches registrants directly when it matters.
Registration is free, confidential, and voluntary. A family member, guardian, or legal authority can register on someone’s behalf.
The registry’s credibility rests on how need is decided. CIVIC uses the C-MIST framework, developed by disability-policy scholar June Isaacson Kailes and adopted by FEMA. It asks what a person would be unable to do in an emergency, never whether a condition is “severe enough.”
A person living with strong family support may have full function in an emergency. A senior with dementia living alone does not. Function is what decides who gets a knock on the door first.
Dignified for the resident. Defensible for the government that stands behind it.
Communication
Can they receive and act on an alert?
Maintaining health
Do they depend on medication, dialysis, or powered medical equipment?
Independence
Can they evacuate or shelter without hands-on help?
Support
Do they have people, or are they alone?
Transportation
Can they get themselves out?
Blizzard · Québec, 2025Photo: Wilfredor, CC0, resizedWe are building exactly what rural municipalities asked for. Honest capabilities, plainly stated.
One tap from every phone: I am safe, I need help, or I am not home. Your community's coordinator watches the dots fill in across the map. The empty dots are where help goes first.
Your evacuation route, your muster point, your medications, your animals, saved on the phone. Open it with zero bars; everything is still there. Built for the places where the signal vanishes on a calm Tuesday afternoon.
A voluntary, consent-based registry gives your coordinator sight of the neighbours who offered help alongside those who said they would need it, so no one is waiting for a stranger when the order comes.
Livestock, horses, and pets are part of the evacuation. CIVIC helps households with animals connect to nearby households that have trailers and space, set up before the season, not during it.
Every decision your municipality makes during an emergency, the order to evacuate, the call to open the warming centre, the moment the road was closed, recorded with the time, the person, and the reason. So next year's response learns from last year's.
Alerts go out through the app, and also by text message and voice call, so a household is reached whether it carries a smartphone, a basic cell, or a landline. No one is left out by the device they use.
See how many households in your community have signed up. Use the number to ask your council to formally adopt CIVIC. The more households, the stronger the case.
Humber River · Newfoundland and LabradorPhoto: Adavyd, CC BY-SA 4.0, resizedThe four places below are portraits, not a boundary. CIVIC is built for every province, every territory, and every First Nations, Inuit, and Métis community. If an alert can reach you, CIVIC can account for you.
The St. Lawrence shore
Flood and ice storm country
The Prairies
Wildfire, wind, and winter
The Atlantic coast
Hurricane and storm surge
The North
Blizzard, ice, and distance
And every place between them. Wherever your community sits on the map, it counts here.
In your language · Dans votre langue
An emergency does not translate itself. CIVIC meets people in the language they think in when the siren goes.
CIVIC fonctionne en français. Au Québec, au Nouveau-Brunswick, la seule province officiellement bilingue du pays, et dans chaque communauté francophone et acadienne, les ménages reçoivent les consignes et confirment qu’ils sont en sécurité dans leur langue. Un seul bouton, et l’application bascule.
CIVIC runs in French. One tap switches the app, for Quebec, New Brunswick, and every francophone and Acadian community in Canada.
Kwe’ · Tânisi · Boozhoo · ᑐᙵᓱᒋᑦ Tunngasugit
Mi’kmaq · Cree · Anishinaabemowin · Inuktitut
Many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities govern themselves, and many reserves run their own emergency response. CIVIC deploys under the community’s own authority. Band councils, self-governing nations, and Inuit land-claim organizations hold their own data, their own records, and their own decisions. Nothing routes through a provincial capital unless the nation chooses it.
Indigenous-language versions are on the roadmap, built with communities, not for them.
For Residents
CIVIC is free for every household in Canada. By registering, you help your town build a stronger case to adopt it. We will notify you when your municipality comes online. Data stays in Canada.
2013
Southern Alberta floods.
Calgary's downtown was evacuated and High River went under. Tens of thousands were forced from their homes in a matter of hours.
2016
The Fort McMurray wildfire.
Nearly ninety thousand people evacuated in a single day, the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
2021
The Western heat dome and the Lytton fire.
Record heat across the West, then the village of Lytton burned to the ground the day after it set the country's temperature record.
2022
Hurricane Fiona.
Houses pulled off their foundations and into the Atlantic across the east coast. Lives lost. Whole streets gone.
2023
The worst wildfire season on record.
Communities from the territories to the Maritimes evacuated as smoke covered the country. The information vacuum the demo on this page is built to close.
