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A long time coming: the Personal Preparedness Assessment Report

Posted on 2026-05-07 by Nick Meacher

This one has been a long time coming.

The Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook has been in customers’ hands for years. The methodology is sound, the math works, the output is genuinely useful. But there has always been the same gap. Step 1 asks the buyer to score 59 hazards for their specific address. And doing that properly is a 20 to 30 hour research project, pulling data from a long list of federal, state, and county sources most people were never trained to use.

For years the answer was “work through it as best you can.” That was never quite good enough.

What finally made it possible to close that gap was the analytical infrastructure built up over the past couple of months for the Daily Threat Report and the sector intelligence products. The DTR source registry now tracks 345+ verified sources across 30 sectors. The sector reports (Healthcare, Banking & Finance, Manufacturing & Construction, Transportation & Logistics, AI/Data Center, Soft Target Security Brief) gave Fortune Favors the Prepared the analytical backbone to do address-specific threat assessment at production scale.

The Personal Preparedness Assessment Report is what that backbone now makes possible.

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What the PPA Report is

One custom-built deliverable, scoped to one specific address.

An analyst applies the methodology in your Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook to your specific location, scores all 59 hazards on five indices (Probability, Impact, Spatial Extent, Warning Time, Duration), ranks the top risks, writes rationale for every elevated and high hazard, identifies the actual geographic anchors driving your risk picture (nuclear facilities, dam systems, hazmat corridors, rail mainlines, flood basins), and translates the output into six capability targets aligned to PREP-CON triggers.

20 to 30 hours of federal, state, and county data research, done for you.

Delivered as a PDF by email about a week from intake. Formatted to print and slot directly into your workbook binder. The report covers Steps 1 and 2. You move straight into Capabilities, Logistics, Personnel Skills, and Response Planning, the parts only you can do.

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The Discount Paths Matter

This launch is built around two groups who get the deepest pricing.

If you already own the Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook, you save the most. There is a discount code printed inside your workbook that takes the standalone Report from full retail down to the Patreon member price. No Patreon membership required, no other purchase needed. The code is in your workbook. If you can’t find it, reply to this email and I’ll send it directly.

If you are a Patreon member, you save the most across the entire FFTP catalog. Member pricing applies automatically at checkout, on every product, every order, every time. The Personal Preparedness Assessment Report at the Patreon member price is one of the deepest discounts on the site.

If you are neither, the bundle (Workbook + Report together) is the path I would recommend. One order, one intake, both products, with savings against buying them separately.

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While we’re talking about address-specific intelligence: the ASAR

If you are reading this and thinking “address-specific is exactly what I need, but I also want a regional operational picture,” the Area-Specific Assessment Report (ASAR) is the companion product to the PPA Report.

The two answer different questions:

– The PPA Report tells you what to plan against. Threat scoring. Risk ranking. Capability targets. Anchored to your specific address.

– The ASAR tells you where the response infrastructure is. Regional COMMS, MEDICAL, INFRASTRUCTURE coverage. Hospitals, trauma centers, amateur radio repeaters, NOAA transmitters, RACES/ACS frequencies, fuel, food, hardware, urgent care, post offices. Anchored to a 50-mile, 100-mile, or 300-mile radius around your specific address.

Most serious preppers eventually want both. The PPA Report says “this is the hazmat corridor that drives your risk.” The ASAR says “these are the trauma centers, fuel stops, comms repeaters, and shelter locations within 50 miles of you when something happens on that corridor.”

ASAR ships at three radius tiers (50-mile family, 100-mile extended family, 300-mile professional/MAG/CERT) and as Workbook Kit bundles with the printed Family Emergency Plan Workbook. Patreon members get member pricing on every ASAR tier as well.

Learn more: fortunefavorstheprepared.com/asar/

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What you receive (PPA Report)

– 59 scored hazards, all five indices, composite Risk Factor for each

– HIGH / ELEVATED / MODERATE / LOW / NEGLIGIBLE banding for every hazard

– Top Five Risks for your address with analyst summary

– Analyst rationale narratives for every HIGH and ELEVATED hazard

– Geographic anchors named (the specific facilities, corridors, and basins driving your risk)

– Six capability targets with PREP-CON trigger maps (Power, Water, Comms, Shelter/Evac, Supply, Health, Info Ops)

– Local resources reference (county OEM, LEPC, NOAA frequency, RACES/ACS frequencies, nearest trauma center, EPZ status, FEMA flood zone)

– Cross-references back to specific PPA Workbook sections, tables, and figures

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See a sample

A 14-page sample with the full methodology, scoring rubric, complete hazard inventory, analyst rationale style, and capability framework intact (customer-specific details redacted) is available at the link below, alongside current pricing and the order page.

fortunefavorstheprepared.com/ppa-report/

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