Where is the nearest shelter?
ProtectionMap shows the registered civil-defence shelters closest to an address, with distance and number of places, and helps a household check that it can manage for a few days without power and water. One country at a time, from official registers, entirely in your browser.
- Danmark – find nærmeste beskyttelsesrum (23.645 registrerede rum, 3.415.144 pladser)
- Deutschland – in preparation. Public refuges (öffentliche Zufluchtsorte) are being registered by the municipalities; we add them when the list is published.
- Norge – planned, from the public shelter register of the Norwegian civil protection authority.
What the map shows
Each country keeps its shelters in a different way. In Denmark almost every place is in a private building shelter, recorded with address and capacity in the national building register, and that register covers the whole country. Other countries publish lists of public shelters, or are only now starting to register them. We use the official source of each country, say when it was downloaded, and explain on a method page what the numbers mean and what they do not mean. A registered shelter is a record in a register, not a promise that the room is ready, open or meant for you: many building shelters are intended for the people who live or work in that building.
Why it is private and calm
This is a private site, not an authority. In an emergency, follow the instructions of the authorities and the official warning channels in your country. The lookup runs in your browser against files we publish in advance; the address you type is not sent to us, and there is no account, no tracking cookie and no advertising. The aim is that you know beforehand what exists around your home, your work and your children's school, so you do not have to search when it matters.
Most crises are about water, power and heat
Very few emergencies require a shelter. Far more often the power, water or heating fails for a few days. Each country's pages include a household check based on that country's own advice, so you can see how much water and food your household needs and tick off what you already have.