The Los Cabos municipal government held a training course on risk management and climate change for city employees this week, part of a broader push to prepare for the 2026 hurricane and rainy season that officially began May 15.
The Civil Protection and Risk Management directorate led the session, which focused on strengthening coordination between city departments and improving institutional response to storms, flooding, and other weather emergencies. Alberto Rentería Santana, the municipal secretary general, attended on behalf of the mayor.
Rentería Santana said city departments need steady preparation and stronger coordination to protect families in Los Cabos during cyclone season. Francisco Cota Márquez, director of Civil Protection and Risk Management, said the training is part of an ongoing effort to build emergency readiness across the municipal workforce.
Part of a Larger Storm Preparation Effort
The staff training is one piece of a wider preparation campaign in Los Cabos this year. The municipality has also prepared 600 public safety personnel and a fleet of 4×4 vehicles to deploy across the region if a storm hits. The Los Cabos Hotel Association has begun activating contingency plans, auditing backup communication systems, and certifying on-site shelters at partner hotels.
Cota Márquez has linked this year’s heightened activity to El Niño conditions, which can increase the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific. For coastal areas like the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, that raises the risk of severe landfalls between June and November.
Lessons From Past Storms
Los Cabos has invested heavily in storm infrastructure since Hurricane Odile devastated the region in September 2014. That Category 3 storm caused billions of pesos in damage and left the Tourist Corridor without power or water for weeks. Since then, local authorities have improved evacuation signage, designated official shelters, and tightened hotel sector coordination with Civil Protection.
During recent tropical systems, emergency crews sheltered nearly 20,000 tourists inside hotels without major incidents. Officials want to modernize that playbook before the peak months of August through October.
Residents and property owners in the Los Cabos area can monitor official alerts through municipal Civil Protection channels. The training course was first reported by the Los Cabos municipal government.