Checked against original sources
See time-sensitive safety information, clarifications, verified community needs, temporary operations, road-access sources, utility outage links, and official recovery pages in one place.
Important right now
This short list elevates resources where timing can materially affect access to help. The full operational picture continues below.
FVR verified September resource sweep
Affected households now have several resident-facing recovery pathways, including LEAVEN tornado relief, CAP Services emergency grants, Red Cross damage-based assistance, Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, and other targeted programs.
Winnebago Free Legal Assistance Clinic / Winnebago County
The Winnebago Free Legal Assistance Clinic is offering a special first-come, first-served clinic where residents impacted by the July 27 severe weather can meet privately with attorneys.
Time-sensitive
Active restrictions, safety notices, important clarifications, and recently lifted conditions that remain useful to know.
Wisconsin Executive Order #303 keeps price-gouging protections in effect for Outagamie, Winnebago, Forest, and Vilas counties for 45 days after its August 7 issuance.
Reverified Tuesday, August 18. Executive Order #303 was issued August 7 for 45 days and covers Outagamie, Winnebago, Forest, and Vilas counties. The Hub summarizes the protection but does not determine whether a particular price violates Wisconsin law.
Governor Tony Evers formally requested a major disaster declaration on August 26. A request is not an approval, and July 27 Individual Assistance is not currently an open application program.
Current, specific needs
Needs shown here are explicitly stated by an official agency or established recovery organization, or independently confirmed by The Hub through on-the-ground reporting. Unverified community chatter is not published as a confirmed need.
Recovery organizations continue to post tornado-related volunteer needs, including skilled-trades and on-call recovery work. Use Volunteer Fox Cities Get Connected rather than former emergency reception sites.
Temporary services
Current and scheduled shelters, meals, supply distribution, volunteer intake, cooling, charging, Wi-Fi, recovery centers, and similar temporary services.
Affected households now have several resident-facing recovery pathways, including LEAVEN tornado relief, CAP Services emergency grants, Red Cross damage-based assistance, Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, and other targeted programs.
The in-person Fox Cities Campus MARC has closed, and Winnebago County now maintains an online Multi-Agency Resource Center with current recovery providers organized by need.
Team Rubicon is listed for free heavy cleanup and protective tarping, while Greater Fox Cities Habitat for Humanity continues home-recovery support.
NAMI Fox Valley is offering a free adult peer-support group focused on the emotional impact of the tornado and recovery. No registration is required.
The Winnebago Free Legal Assistance Clinic is offering a special first-come, first-served clinic where residents impacted by the July 27 severe weather can meet privately with attorneys.
Choose the responsible agency
Road conditions and closures can change quickly, and no single source shows every local road. Choose the official source responsible for the state highway, county trunk highway, city street, village road, or transit service involved. The Hub does not publish or manually maintain individual road-closure updates.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
State highways, I-41, major incidents, construction, closures, detours, traffic cameras, and travel conditions. Local streets may not appear.
City of Appleton Emergency Management
Storm-specific recovery instructions, restrictions, safety notices, shelters, utilities, and current incident information.
City of Appleton Public Works
Road Report mapping, current construction projects, longer-term street impacts, and links to I-41 project information.
City of Menasha Public Works
Traffic information, current construction links, traffic-safety reporting, transit information, and official city news where significant street closures may be announced.
City of Neenah Public Works
Official traffic resources, public transit information, truck routes, traffic signals, and related city transportation information.
Village of Fox Crossing
Village notices and links to current municipal and county storm information for local streets and access.
Winnebago County Highway Department
County highway information for lettered county trunk highways and county-maintained routes. Use county emergency information for tornado-specific restrictions.
Winnebago County Emergency Management
Current Menasha and Fox Crossing restrictions, shelter information, public services, and travel advisories.
Outagamie County Highway Department
County-highway projects, construction impacts, closures, and detours that may not appear on municipal pages.
Calumet County Highway Department
County-highway construction, current project impacts, closures, and detour information.
Calumet County Emergency Management
Official emergency and disaster information for Harrison and other Calumet County portions of the Fox Valley.
Valley Transit
Bus tracking, route detours, service announcements, and transit alerts.
Official utility information
Use the utility serving your address as the source of truth. The Hub does not maintain a duplicate community outage map.
We Energies
Real-time outage map, restoration information, and outage reporting. The map updates about every 10 minutes.
Wisconsin Public Service
Real-time outage map and outage reporting. The map updates about every 10 minutes.
Menasha Utilities
Report a power outage, partial power, flickering lights, or downed power lines directly to the municipal utility.
Kaukauna Utilities
Official outage map, outage reporting instructions, and text-alert enrollment.
Follow the original source
Use these pages for the newest government, emergency-management, organized-volunteer, and referral information.
City of Appleton Emergency Management
City recovery information, damage reporting, shelters, utility links, mental-health contacts, donations, and safety reminders.
Outagamie County Emergency Management
County tornado recovery information and emergency-management notices.
Winnebago County Emergency Management
Current advisories, shelter, food, supplies, utilities, pets, volunteer instructions, and public-service information.
Village of Fox Crossing
Village storm notice and access to the controlling county recovery page.
Calumet County Emergency Management
Official incident and recovery information for Harrison and other Calumet County communities.
Volunteer Fox Cities
Primary organized-volunteer coordination source for Fox Valley recovery. Confirm current deployment opportunities directly because published storm-response details may describe earlier operations.
211 Wisconsin
Current referrals for shelter, food, housing, transportation, utilities, health, and recovery support. Call 211 or 877-947-2211.
State of Wisconsin / Wisconsin Emergency Management
Official state status for the July 27 preliminary damage-assessment process, federal-assistance availability, and price-gouging protections.
The Hub shows the actual confirmation or check date rather than relative wording such as “today.”
The stated operation or need is scheduled to end within 12 hours.
The planned review time has passed. Open the source before relying on it.
Expired and superseded items are removed from the public current-information view rather than left visible as stale guidance.