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Your community deserves an operations center — not just a phone tree

The lightweight emergency operations platform for rural counties and small communities. Situational awareness, coordination, and upstream reporting — at a price that fits a rural budget.

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43%
Counties lack a dedicated EOC 43% of county emergency management agencies share their EOC with other departments. Only 53% have a dedicated facility; 4% have no EOC at all. NACo National Survey, 2019
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FEMA Lifelines tracked Community Lifelines are the 7 essential services that enable continuous operation of critical government and business functions during an emergency. FEMA Community Lifelines
The Problem

When the storm hits, your "EOC" is a phone tree and a whiteboard

Enterprise EOC platforms cost $25,000+. Rural counties coordinate emergencies with phone calls, Facebook Messenger, and whoever shows up at the courthouse.

WebEOC starts at $25,000/year

Enterprise coordination platforms serve state and large-county operations. A rural county with 3,000 residents will never justify that budget line.

No common operating picture

The county judge has one set of information, the fire chief has another, the utility co-op a third. The public gets fragments from Facebook. Nobody sees the full picture.

The state needs reports you can't produce

TDEM needs SitReps. FEMA needs ICS-209s. You're supposed to produce these forms during a disaster while also running the response with a two-person team.

Adoption fails under pressure

Even when tools exist, forgotten passwords, complex interfaces, and unfamiliar systems mean people default to phone calls and texting during the crisis.

Core Capabilities

20% of WebEOC's features, 1% of the cost — delivered via SMS

RuralEOC gives your community the coordination tools that matter most, accessible from any phone, any browser, anywhere.

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Lifelines Dashboard

Real-time status of all 7 FEMA Community Lifelines — power, water, roads, comms, health, safety, hazmat — in a single view your county judge can pull up in any briefing.

FEMA framework
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Multi-Role Access

Five roles from Admin to View Only. The fire chief updates fire status. The utility co-op updates power restoration. Everyone sees the same board. No extra logins needed.

Magic link access
03

SMS Field Reporting

Authorized responders text updates from the field. Severity prefixes auto-classify. No app, no data connection needed — just a text message that feeds the situation board.

Works without internet
04

ICS-Lite Reports

Auto-generate SitReps, ICS-209s, and damage assessments from data already in the system. Send the state what they need without learning the forms from scratch.

Auto-generated
05

EOC Activation

One tap triggers the activation chain. Key personnel get SMS/call with role confirmation and instant magic-link access. Like PagerDuty, but for your county EOC.

No passwords
06

Cascading Impact Detection

Post a power outage — the system flags that water treatment runs on electric pumps and the cell tower has 4 hours of battery. You don't have to remember the dependencies.

Lifelines integration
Community Status Page

One page. One truth. Always current.

  • FEMA Lifelines framework. Uses the standard categories emergency managers are already trained to think in.
  • Public and admin views. Residents see status. Your team sees the full picture with inbound reports and resource tracking.
  • Updated via SMS or dashboard. The fire chief texts from the field. The status board updates. No app needed.
  • Persistent between emergencies. Residents bookmark it for burn bans and road closures. The habit is built before the crisis.
getalert.co/tx/coke-county
Coke County — Community Lifelines
Last updated 3 minutes ago
Safety & Security Operational 2:30 PM
Food, Water, Shelter Operational 2:30 PM
Health & Medical Degraded 2:15 PM
Energy (Power & Fuel) Disrupted 1:45 PM
Communications Degraded 2:00 PM
Transportation Partial closures 1:30 PM
Hazardous Materials No incidents 2:30 PM
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How We Compare

Enterprise capability at a rural price point

The market jumps from "nothing" to $25,000. RuralEOC fills the gap.

WebEOC Veoci D4H RuralEOC
Annual Cost $25,000+ $5,000+ $750–$80,000 $1,188–$2,400
Situational Awareness Dashboard ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SMS-Based Field Reporting — — — ✓
FEMA Lifelines Integration Manual Manual — Built-in
Auto-Generated ICS Forms — Templates Templates ✓
No-Password Emergency Access — — — Magic links
Works Without Internet — — — SMS fallback
Setup Time Months Weeks Days 1 hour
IT Staff Required ✓ ✓ Some No
Who It's For

Built for the people running emergency management with two people and a radio

RuralEOC serves communities between 2,000 and 50,000 — too small for enterprise, too important to go without.

County Emergency Management

Give your county judge a real-time common operating picture. Give your TDEM liaison auto-generated SitReps. Give your residents a single source of truth.

$99/mo

Regional Coordinators & COGs

Roll out lightweight EOC capability across an entire district. Monitor Lifelines status for multiple counties from a single dashboard.

Volume discounts for multi-county

Fire Districts & First Responders

Coordinate multi-agency wildfire response. Field reporting via SMS keeps the situation board current even when cell data is congested.

$99/mo

State EM Agencies

As counties adopt RuralEOC, structured lifeline data flows upstream automatically — no extra reporting burden on local teams. Get real-time visibility into rural conditions across your region during statewide events.

Contact for state-level plans
Better Together
RuralEOC + integrates with + GetAlert

RuralEOC is your coordination tool — the dashboard your team uses to track lifelines, manage field reports, and generate ICS forms. GetAlert is what your residents see — the public status page, the SMS alerts, the multi-channel notifications. Update a lifeline in RuralEOC, and it flows automatically to your community's GetAlert page. One system for your team, one for your public — connected seamlessly.

Why We're Building This
Rural communities are underserved. They understand what they need, but often lack the budget and tooling.

RuralEOC was born from conversations with emergency managers at IAEM Region 6 who told us the same thing: the tools exist, but they cost $25,000 and require a team of IT staff. Meanwhile, 43% of counties share EOC space with other departments, and coordination during real emergencies falls back to phone calls and Facebook. We're building what those communities actually need — not a cheaper WebEOC, but a fundamentally different approach designed for how rural emergency management really works.

Get Involved

Help us build the EOC rural America deserves

We're in early exploration — talking to emergency managers, county officials, and regional coordinators to shape what RuralEOC becomes. Tell us about your community.

No commitment. We're gathering input to build the right thing.