Extreme Cold: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety

The Extreme Cold Prevention Guide combines all of the key content of the CDC Winter Weather website into one downloadable, printable file. Printing this PDF file ensures that you will have important winter weather health and safety information available even when you're without power or Internet service.

The Extreme Cold Guide is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) below. While the PDF file might not be entirely accessible to people with disabilities, all information in the guide is available on this Web site. Below the PDF link are a set of links to the Web pages that make up this guide.

Download the Prevention Guide

• Extreme Cold Guide [PDF - 3 MB]

Web Pages Included in the Extreme Cold Guide

• Take Steps
  • Before a Storm
    • Prepare Your Home
    • Prepare Your Car
    • Winter Weather Checklists
  • During a Storm
    • Indoor Safety 
    • Outdoor Safety
  • After a Storm
    • Returning Home After a Storm
    • Clean Up Safely After a Storm
• Stay Safe and Healthy
  • Hypothermia
  • Frostbite