Amazon more than triples wildfire relief supply stock
Amazon is strategically expanding the number of wildfire relief items it stores in its dedicated response hub.
The online giant opened its first Wildfire Relief Hub, located in the San Bernadino Valley two hours east of Los Angeles, in 2024. Initially stocked with more than 6,000 essential items — as well as its logistics infrastructure and technology, the hub delivered needed items to first responders, non-profit partners and humanitarian relief agencies on the ground in Los Angeles during the January 2025 wildfires that struck the city.
Now, Amazon is storing approximately 20,000 wildfire relief items at the hub — over three times more than when it opened. These include air filters, masks, fire-safe rubber boots, respirators, hydration packets, neck gaiters, specialized gloves, and trauma kits. In addition, the hub stocks approximately 200,000 general relief items, such as diapers, toiletries and medical devices.
In partnership with organizations that serve wildfire-impacted communities, including American Red Cross, After The Fire, COPE Preparedness, and Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation, Amazon mined data and feedback to stock the hub.
In addition to donating relief items, Amazon shares technology to help community partners assess fire damage, monitor new hot spots, track emerging fires, and use aerial surveillance to create maps that aid in decision-making and preventative response efforts.
"Wildfires don’t wait, and neither can relief efforts," said Abe Diaz, Amazon’s head of disaster relief. "Prepositioning supplies close to high-risk areas means we can respond in hours, not days. After seeing the devastation in L.A., we listened and learned; scaling our California hub with more volume, more variety, and specialized equipment like masks and air filters to better support first responders and the communities they protect."
Disaster Relief Hubs – a brief primer
The main purpose of what are now 15 global Disaster Relief Hubs (Amazon opened its most recent facility in Tepozotlán, Mexico in February 2025) is to enable the e-tail giant to use its logistics network to quickly send critical products to nonprofits and community partners in the wake of natural disasters.
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Since 2017, Amazon says it has donated and delivered more than 26 million relief items in response to more than 200 disasters worldwide. The process of sending emergency supplies to disaster zones can take multiple days.
To quicken that timeframe, Amazon analyzed its data across nine years of disaster support and formed a pre-positioning strategy. The strategy is tailored to the most common relief supplies needed by the company’s community partners, including tarps, tents, water containers and filters, medical equipment, clothing items and kitchen supplies.
