Overview
- The government formalized Plan Invierno 2026 in Resolución 492/2026 published in the Boletín Oficial on Friday, updating the scheme that began in 2024.
- The resolution names the Agencia Federal de Emergencias as the national authority for emergencies and transfers duties from the former Dirección Nacional de Operaciones de Protección Civil to AFE.
- Operational execution will be led by AFE’s Dirección Nacional de Operaciones y Logística, which can scale and deploy resources on request from provinces.
- The plan uses the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional May–July forecast that projects above‑normal conditions in parts of the country and lists main threats as heavy snow with strong winds, prolonged snow, rain on snow that can cause floods or landslides, and impacts to energy infrastructure with priority monitoring for Patagonia, Cuyo and the Noroeste.
- An interagency working group including defense and protection civil bodies, Vialidad Nacional, federal forces, volunteer fire brigades, the Energy Secretariat, YPF, CIPET and SMN will coordinate permanent monitoring, provincial assistance protocols and distribution of heating, fuel, food and leña to vulnerable communities, drawing on past extreme‑weather responses from 1970 through 2024.