This research aimed to explain how the initiation process from the community reconstructs evacuation routes in high risk earthquake area. The study location took place in Sengon Village, Prambanan District, Klaten Regency. Sengon was located near Opak fault zone where experienced tremendous disaster in 2006. Since a decade, the mitigation infrastructure was very deficient. The community-based mitigation was not also available yet in this village. However, the community was highly potential to build disaster resilience since supports by the government. Route condition in Sengon was also greatly supportive to construct effective evacuation route. Based on identification and community planning, the evacuation route consisted of local road and tracking road. There were also found that eight places classified as secondary assembly shelters and two places classified as a primary evacuation shelter. The SWOT analysis was done for supporting the strategy to develop the evacuation infrastructure. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.