Lessons learned from the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake include the importance of seismic structural planning, public facilities to shelters and the necessity of emergency response manuals. In Hokkaido a cold, snowy region it is essential to provide heating condition in refuge shelters. We administered a questionnaire on disaster prevention and management related to designated refuge shelters in Kushiro City. This paper describes provisional refuge planning for districts from the view point of the evaluation of the disaster prevention functions of designated refuge shelters.