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Review policy

A date should tell you something useful.

Every substantive page shows when its words and links were last checked. That review date isn’t the same as the timestamp on a live source, and it isn’t a promise that conditions haven’t changed since breakfast.

Fixed schedule

What gets checked, and when.

Higher-consequence and faster-changing material gets the shorter clock. Any credible correction report can trigger an earlier review.

Monthly

Official-help directories

Signals entries, alert enrollment links, agency responsibilities, public phone numbers, and jurisdiction coverage.

Quarterly

Routes and first actions

Pages that point to evacuation maps, natural warnings, protective actions, closures, public programs, and other current official instructions.

Twice yearly

Hazard and capability guidance

Preparedness guides, household capability pages, building questions, recovery guidance, and linked source notes.

Annually

Governance and background

The Approach, FAQ, Constitution links, policy pages, long-lived regional context, and explanatory material.

After change

Source-triggered review

A major agency revision, new safety recommendation, changed program, broken critical link, or credible reader report starts a review without waiting for the calendar.

Before publication

Every Field Story

Fiction labels, the boundary between narrative and factual notes, safety-relevant claims, and the source links supporting those notes.

Two clocks

Review date versus source time.

A review date tells you when Cascadia.me last checked the page. A source time tells you when an agency, gauge, forecast, or public notice last updated its own information. A reviewed page can still point to a source that changes five minutes later.

When conditions are active, use the current official source for your location. An empty map isn’t an all-clear, a directory listing isn’t an alert, and our review date doesn’t overrule either one.

Policy adopted and reviewed July 25, 2026