Disaster Relief Kits: What Goes In, What They Cost, and How Fast They Ship

By Autumn Lido, Partner and Chief of Operations, Convenience Kits International

A disaster relief kit is a standardized, pre-assembled bag of personal care items that an organization hands to someone who arrived at a shelter or a distribution point without their own supplies. This guide covers what belongs in one, what disaster relief kits cost per unit in bulk, how to pack a go bag for your own household, and the mistakes that waste the most money.

What Is a Disaster Relief Kit?

A disaster relief kit is built to a fixed specification and sealed before it leaves the warehouse, which is what separates it from a bag someone packs by hand. Two relief organizations publish their contents lists in full, and they arrived at nearly the same one.

Church World Service specifies ten components: a 1-gallon resealable plastic bag, a washcloth, a toothbrush in original packaging, a nail clipper, a bath-size bar of soap, travel-size deodorant, lotion, shampoo and toothpaste at 3.4 ounces or less each, and a wide-tooth comb at least six inches long¹.

Heart to Heart International's kits hold a hand towel, washcloth, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, soap, comb, nail clipper and a handwashing flyer².

Seven items appear on both lists: washcloth, toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, comb and nail clipper. Two independent organizations agreeing on those seven is the closest thing this category has to a standard. Hold any kit you are quoted against that list first.

The packaging is a specification too, not an afterthought. FEMA's Commonly Used Sheltering Items Catalog states that hygiene kit components shall be assembled into a small, water-resistant plastic bag with a re-closable zip lock mechanism³.

A go bag is a different object with a different owner. A go bag is a personal evacuation kit a household packs in advance and carries out the door, holding documents, cash, water, food, a flashlight, medicines and personal care items⁴. The honest distinction is not what goes inside. It is who packs it and who receives it.

Fewer Federal Declarations, the Same Number of Disasters

Two numbers moved in opposite directions between 2024 and 2025, and together they explain why more organizations are buying their own supplies.

FEMA's own declaration records show 45 major disaster declarations in calendar 2025, running from DR-4853 in Alaska on January 1 to DR-4897 in Kansas on December 19⁵. That is exactly half the 90 major disaster declarations recorded in calendar 2024, a year that was itself close to double the long-run average of roughly 55 per year⁶.

The disasters themselves did not halve. Climate Central counted 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States in 2025, costing $115 billion and causing an estimated 276 fatalities, the third-highest annual count on record behind 2023 and 2024⁷.

The shape of that year matters more than the count, because it changes what you should be stocking. Severe storms accounted for 21 of the 23 events, with one wildfire and one drought, and the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires were the costliest single event at $61.2 billion⁷.

Hurricane season is a smaller share of that picture than most planning calendars assume. In its August 6, 2026 update, NOAA maintained a below-normal outlook for the Atlantic season: 7 to 13 named storms, 2 to 6 hurricanes and 0 to 2 major hurricanes, with a 75 percent chance of a below-normal season⁸.

The practical consequence for a buyer is simple. More of the response now sits with states, counties, nonprofits and faith-based organizations spending their own budgets, and less of it can be assumed to arrive with a federal declaration attached.

Scale helps calibrate what that means. In fiscal year 2025, covering July 2024 through June 2025, the American Red Cross provided more than 1,200,000 relief items to more than 249,000 households, along with more than 274,000 overnight shelter and hotel stays⁹.

State-level numbers run smaller and are easier to plan against. Florida's Division of Emergency Management reported coordinating delivery of 11,000 hygiene kits and 7,900 flood buckets during its South Florida flooding response in 2024¹⁰.

How to Build a Go Bag

A go bag is the household version of all this, and it is the version most people need first. The City of Philadelphia's Office of Emergency Management publishes a checklist that covers the whole thing.

Its list covers⁴:

• Copies of important documents: insurance cards, photo IDs, birth certificates, deeds, proof of address
• Extra house keys and car keys
• Cash, especially in small bills (ones, fives and tens)
• Bottled water and ready-to-eat foods such as energy or granola bars
• A flashlight with extra batteries
• A battery-operated AM/FM radio with extra batteries
• A first aid kit
• A local evacuation route map
• Sturdy shoes and a lightweight rain coat
• A mylar blanket
• A three-day supply of all medicines, plus health information forms and prescription copies
• Household contact information and a meeting place
• Special care items, including child care supplies and pet supplies

• Personal hygiene items: hand sanitizer, feminine products, toothbrush, toothpaste, toilet paper and wipes

  Notice where hygiene sits in that list. Six named personal care items, listed alongside the flashlight and the radio rather than tacked on at the end.

  That is the part of an emergency go bag people most often improvise, and it is the part a pre-packed kit solves in one purchase. Every liquid in a CKI kit is 3.4 ounces or less, which is also what carry-on rules require if you end up flying out¹¹. The full liquids rules live in our TSA-compliant travel kit guide.

Three Days, Seven Days, or Two Weeks?

There is no single right answer, and the agencies do not pretend otherwise. How many days a disaster kit should cover depends on how long your area is likely to be cut off.

The 72-hour figure most emergency kit checklists still use is the older federal baseline. Several state emergency management agencies have moved past it¹².

Florida's Division of Emergency Management advises enough nonperishable food, clean water, medication and other essential supplies to sustain every household member, including children, seniors and pets, for a minimum of seven days¹³.

Oregon and Washington now advise two weeks. Oregon's Be 2 Weeks Ready program states its goal as "enough supplies for you and everyone in your household to survive for at least two weeks following a disaster", organized into units covering food, water storage and purification, shelter, first aid, and a waste and hygiene plan¹².

Most households have done the first tier and stopped. FEMA's 2024 National Household Survey, fielded among 7,525 respondents, found 69 percent had assembled emergency supplies, and among those, 88 percent said their kit would last more than three days while only 34 percent said it would last more than two weeks¹⁴.

If you are buying hurricane supplies for a coastal household, seven days is a defensible floor. If you are inland and exposed to earthquake or long-duration isolation, use the two-week number and buy accordingly.

What Relief Organizations Will and Will Not Accept

Receiving organizations apply intake rules, and a kit that fails one gets pulled after all the work is done. That surprises almost anyone assembling kits by hand for the first time.

Church World Service rejects hotel-size or travel-size bars of soap in favor of bath-size bars, shower gel in place of soap, narrow-tooth combs, brushes in place of combs, hand towels in place of washcloths, bandages, used washcloths and personalized notes¹. It also requires toothpaste with at least one year left on its expiration date, and lotion and shampoo that are new and unopened¹.

Each of those rules exists for an operational reason, and the comb rule is the one worth sitting with. The standard insists on a wide-tooth comb at least six inches long, packaging removed. That reads as fussy on paper.

Ben Lido, who has handed kits directly to men living on a grate in Washington DC in winter, saw them six months later still carrying the black unbreakable comb¹¹.

The other rule is about timing, and federal guidance is direct about it. USA.gov states that a cash donation is the best way to help after a disaster because it gives volunteers the flexibility to buy needed supplies in bulk, and advises donors to give items only when they are requested, only from the list of requested items, and never shipped directly to the affected area¹⁵.

USAID's Center for International Disaster Information documents what happens when that guidance is ignored. Unsolicited items clog supply chains, take up space needed to stage life-saving relief supplies, divert aid workers' time, and cost more every time they change hands¹⁶.

After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, donated goods clogged the runway used for relief flights and had to be bulldozed off the airstrip and burned as garbage¹⁶.

The reason organizations resist donated goods is variability and sorting labor. If you are buying rather than collecting, that is worth knowing before you decide what to send and when.

What to Look For When You Buy in Bulk

Five things separate a kit that gets distributed from a kit that sits in a storage room. Price is not one of them, at least not on its own.

Sealed, water-resistant packaging

The bag is a specification. Both published standards above require a resealable, water-resistant closure, and the reason is a single leaked bottle ruining everything else in the bag^{1, 3}.

Where a supplier does its quality control is the question worth asking. At Convenience Kits International it happens at three points rather than one: incoming components, assembly of the kit, and the seal, with a further inspection after assembly and before the kit is boxed. Bottles that show any leak are pulled and not used¹¹.

Contents tier, not piece count

Piece count is the one number on a product page that carries no information. On a single wholesale disaster relief collection, a 15-piece travel hygiene kit lists at $1.55 and a 15-piece essential hygiene kit lists at $9.00¹⁷.

What separates them is what the pieces are. The range runs from sachets, packets and single-use products, through unbranded hotel sizes, up to nationally branded products the recipient recognizes¹¹. That is a real decision with a real price gap, not a rounding error.

Shelf life, component by component

A kit does not have one expiration date. Church World Service requires toothpaste with a minimum one-year expiration at the time of donation, and lotion and shampoo that are new and unopened¹.

Hand sanitizer is usually the limiting item in pre-positioned stock. It carries a printed expiration date, commonly two to three years out, because the alcohol slowly evaporates through containers that are not airtight¹⁸.

If your stock lives in a trailer or an unconditioned warehouse, that is the item to rotate against.

Brands the recipient recognizes

Many nonprofit agencies buy from CKI specifically because CKI does not use off-brand product¹¹. Ben's reasoning is that receiving brands people know and trust "gives them greater dignity, that they matter"¹¹.

One nonprofit client asked CKI to leave out a particular institutional off-brand of toothpaste, because that brand is what recipients were issued during incarceration and in drug rehabilitation facilities, and the smell of it puts them back there¹¹. Brands people used before their hard times land differently. That is the clearest illustration we have that contents tier is not just a cost line.

CKI's Not for Profit / Stay Safe Kits line includes a Unisex 8 pc Essential Hygiene & Toiletry Kit built around Dove amenities at $3.70 per kit, $74.00 per case of 20¹⁹.

Who stands behind it after it ships

Ask what happens when a pallet arrives damaged. CKI takes the merchandise back and reissues product, in Ben's words: "We stand behind our kits' quality"¹¹.

Kits are assembled either by a private contract packer or by an agency that employs people with mental and physical disabilities, both operating under the same quality control steps. Those facilities have been in business more than thirty years, and CKI's working relationship with them runs more than 35 years¹¹.

What Disaster Relief Kits Cost

Prices below were read off supplier pages on August 14, 2026 and will drift. Use them as bands rather than as a price list.

The three price bands

The entry band runs from a 7-piece travel hygiene kit at $0.75 up to an 8-piece budget hygiene and toiletries kit at $2.50 per kit in cases of 50^{17, 19}. The upper band includes 13 to 18 piece wholesale kits clustered at $7.40 to $8.80, and cold-weather kits at $10.50 to $15.00^{20, 17}.

What CKI charges

A case pack is the number of kits inside one shipping case, and it is the number that sets the per-kit price. Here is CKI's own nonprofit ladder with that context attached¹⁹:

What actually moves the price

Three factors move per-kit price far more than piece count. Contents tier is the big one, as the $1.55 and $9.00 pair above shows. Case size is the second, and CKI's own ladder shows it: $6.15 per kit in cases of 12, $2.50 per kit in cases of 50¹⁹.

Customization is the third. CKI states that customizing what goes inside a travel kit starts at 15 kits, that custom logo printing is available at 100 kits or more, and that orders above 100 and 200 cases move into quoted pricing^{21, 22}.

Expect the published volume discount to be shallow and the real movement to happen in a quote. CKI's bulk ordering page shows a case at $49.60 holding that price through 9 cases, dropping to $48.88 at 10 to 49 cases and $47.44 at 50 or more, which is about 4.4 percent from one case to fifty²³.

That is why this category runs on quotes rather than list prices. One of the larger wholesale suppliers publishes no prices at all on its disaster relief page, stating only that "No order minimums allow you to purchase disaster relief products by the case, pallet, or truckload for any size mission"²⁴.

One more comparison is worth running before you decide to assemble kits yourself. Church World Service puts the value of its ten-item hand-assembled hygiene kit at $15.00, plus an optional $2.00 per kit shipping and processing contribution¹. A comparable single-person kit bought at consumer retail was $5.99, and verified bulk pre-assembled kits ran $2.50 to $8.80^{25, 19, 20}.

Ready to price a specific quantity? Order in bulk or call 800-255-5436.

Five Mistakes Buyers and Donors Make

1. Collecting and shipping goods nobody asked for. Federal guidance is to give cash, and to send items only when they are requested and only from the requested list¹⁵. If you are supplying an organization, ask what they need and when they want it delivered, then buy to that.
2. Comparing kits on piece count. Two 15-piece kits on the same supplier page were priced at $1.55 and $9.00¹⁷. Compare the contents list and the container sizes instead, and ask what tier of product is inside.
3. Stocking food, water and tarps, then forgetting hygiene. In Florida's own 2024 summary, meals, shelf-stable meals, water bottles, ice and tarps appear in the supply totals it reported for every major event, while hygiene kits appear in one¹⁰.
4. Buying against the hurricane forecast. In 2025, 21 of 23 billion-dollar disasters were severe storms rather than tropical systems, and the costliest single event was a January wildfire⁷. Florida's largest reported hygiene kit distribution in 2024 came from a flood response, not from any of the three hurricanes it worked that year¹⁰.

5. Budgeting on federal reimbursement. Under 42 U.S.C. 5170b, the federal share of essential assistance "shall be not less than 75 percent of the eligible cost", covering the distribution of consumable supplies through relief organizations²⁶. That depends on a major disaster declaration being in place and on the applicant and the cost being eligible, and declarations halved between 2024 and 2025^{5, 6}.

   Congressional Research Service reporting also describes an April 2025 FEMA memorandum proposing to raise the Public Assistance per capita indicator threshold used in evaluating whether to recommend a major disaster declaration²⁷. Treat reimbursement as recovery of cost after the fact, not as the funding mechanism.

How Fast Kits Can Actually Arrive

Kits in stock ship within 48 hours and often within 24¹¹. This is the question a disaster buyer really has, and it is rarely about contents.

When new kits have to be produced, CKI can build 4,000 to 6,000 in a day. Double shifts double that, and production can run around the clock against a deadline¹¹.

The proof under real pressure: after a hurricane, a Florida relief organization needed hygiene kits for an entire community, and CKI shipped 2,000 within 24 hours. That organization has come back for every unexpected emergency since¹¹.

Those windows apply to stock on hand, and a custom run does not ship in 24 hours, which is the argument for settling your specification before the season rather than during an incident.

What We Recommend

Pre-positioning on a fixed budget: the Budget 8pc Hygiene & Toiletries Kit at $2.50 per kit in cases of 50 puts the most sealed kits on a pallet for the money¹⁹. It is the entry tier, and it is honest about that.

Kits people will actually use: the Unisex 8 pc Essential Kit with Dove Amenities at $3.70 per kit in cases of 20 puts a national brand in the bag at a nonprofit price¹⁹. If your recipients are adults in a shelter setting, this is the tier we would order.

Populations with a specific need: CKI's hygiene kits category carries an Oral Care On The Go 6 pc kit and a Feminine 14 PC Hygiene Kit²¹. Menstrual materials are among the items humanitarian standards prioritize in the first phase of a response²⁸.

A kit built to your own list: the Good Work program offers 300 travel-size items and 32 bag styles to choose from, with logo printing available at 100 kits or more²². Start at custom travel kits if you know what your population needs and the stock lists do not match it.

Custom costs more than stock for a reason worth understanding. A custom kit requires setting up its own production line, while stock kits run in batches of 5,000 to 10,000, and that batch size is what makes them cheaper¹¹.

One last thing to keep in mind while you compare line items. Ben's framing, after decades of watching where these land: "People who don't have truly appreciate receiving something that at one time in their life they took for granted. When they hit hard times, when they're given something that reminds them of what it used to be like, it elevates them."¹¹ He calls it a hand up toward better days ahead.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a go bag and a disaster relief kit?

A go bag is a personal evacuation kit a household packs in advance and carries out the door, holding documents, cash in small bills, water and food, a flashlight, a battery radio, a first aid kit, medicines and personal care items⁴. A disaster relief kit is a standardized kit an organization distributes to people who arrived without their own supplies, built to a fixed specification and sealed in a water-resistant re-closable bag^{1, 3}. The difference is who packs it and who receives it.

How many disaster relief kits should our organization stock?

There is no formula, and any supplier who gives you one is guessing. Use the anchors instead: the American Red Cross distributed more than 1,200,000 relief items to more than 249,000 households in fiscal year 2025, covering July 2024 through June 2025⁹, and Florida's emergency management division moved 11,000 hygiene kits in a single flood response in 2024¹⁰.

Two variables decide your number. How many people you serve in one event, and how long you expect to be the only supply.

Is buying pre-assembled kits worth it compared with assembling our own?

Compare against a real benchmark rather than a receipt you have not run yet. Church World Service values its ten-item hand-assembled kit at $15.00 plus an optional $2.00 processing contribution¹, while verified bulk pre-assembled kits with comparable contents ran $2.50 to $8.80 per kit in August 2026^{19, 20}.

The most common pricing mistake is adding up what the components would cost individually and stopping there. That arithmetic misses the sorting and packing hours, which is the value a buyer is actually paying for¹¹.

How long do disaster relief kits last in storage?

There is no single expiry for a kit, because components differ. Church World Service requires toothpaste with at least one year remaining on its expiration and lotion and shampoo that are new and unopened¹. Hand sanitizer is usually the limiting item, carrying an expiration date commonly two to three years out¹⁸.

Sealed, water-resistant packaging protects the rest, which is why FEMA's sheltering catalog specifies a re-closable zip lock bag³.

Can we customize the kits or put our logo on them?

Yes, and the two thresholds are different. CKI states that customizing what goes inside a travel kit starts at 15 kits, and that custom logo printing on the bag is available at 100 kits or more^{21, 22}.

The Good Work program offers 300 travel-size items and 32 bag styles, and CKI's stated practice on a custom request is to come back with a quote within 24 hours^{22, 19}.

Can kits be drop shipped to multiple locations?

Yes. This question comes almost exclusively from agencies and companies with multiple sites, and the reason is freight: nobody wants to pay to ship everything into one warehouse and then pay again to redistribute it¹¹.

Give us the site list and the split per location when you request a quote.

Can our organization get federal reimbursement for disaster relief kit purchases?

Under 42 U.S.C. 5170b, federal assistance for distributing consumable supplies through state and local governments and relief organizations carries a federal share of "not less than 75 percent of the eligible cost"²⁶. That depends on a major disaster declaration being in place for the incident and on the applicant and the cost being eligible.

Federal major disaster declarations fell from 90 in calendar 2024 to 45 in calendar 2025^{5, 6}. Pre-positioned stock bought on your own budget is not exposed to whether a declaration comes.

Order Disaster Relief Kits in Bulk

If you are stocking ahead of a season or responding to something already underway, the fastest path is a quantity and a delivery address. Order in bulk, start a custom travel kit, or look at the Not for Profit / Stay Safe Kits ladder if you want a stock kit shipping this week.

Call 800-255-5436 to talk through quantities, customization, drop shipping to multiple sites and lead times. For general questions about what is in a specific kit, call 800-859-KITS or use contact us.

Related reading: bulk hygiene kits covers shelters, outreach and hygiene drives, school and period kits covers students, and our blog post on buying hygiene kits in bulk covers the ordering basics.

Sources

1. Church World Service, 2026. Hygiene Kit contents and requirements: the ten required components, the wide-tooth comb and bath-size soap specifications, the one-year toothpaste expiration rule, the new-and-unopened requirements, the $15.00 stated kit value plus $2.00 processing contribution, and the full list of prohibited substitutions. https://cwskits.org/assemble-kits/hygiene-kits/
2. Heart to Heart International, 2026. Hygiene Kit Program contents list. https://www.hearttoheart.org/hygiene-kit-program/
3. FEMA, 2022. Commonly Used Sheltering Items (CUSI) Catalog, September 2022 edition. Packaging specification requiring hygiene kit components be assembled into a small, water-resistant plastic bag with a re-closable zip lock mechanism. https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_commonly-used-sheltering-items-catalog.pdf
4. City of Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, 2026. Make a Go Bag checklist, including documents, cash guidance, supplies and the six named personal hygiene items. https://www.phila.gov/departments/oem/ready-or-not/how-to-get-ready/prepare-for-an-emergency/make-a-go-bag/
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22. Convenience Kits International, 2026. Good Work page. 300 travel-size items and 32 bag styles, custom logo available at 100 kits or more, and per-kit prices from $2.50 to $6.15. https://www.conveniencekits.com/good-work/
23. Convenience Kits International, 2026. Bulk ordering page. Four-tier case discount curve at $49.60, $49.60, $48.88 and $47.44, and the custom quote routing. https://www.conveniencekits.com/kits_bulk_ordering/
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28. The Sphere Handbook, 2018. Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion. Prioritization of soap, water containers and menstruation and incontinence materials in the initial phase of a response. https://handbook.spherestandards.org/en/sphere/