The research is aimed to compare household characteristics that support the disaster management practices of households located in the disaster prone area of Mt. Slamet in Indonesia. These practices are employed in Pemalang and Banyumas districts which are located in the disaster prone II area. The disaster prone II area was settled by the Indonesian government as a most risky area as it is located near to the peak of the mountain. To achieve the research aim, quantitative research was supported by qualitative observation research methods to fulfil this study. Two hundred and fourty six households in Pemalang and Banyumas districts were selected to be sampled using systematic random sampling design. Qualitative sampling was employed. In this study, the disaster management practices are divided into mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery phases. The result found that Pemalang district’s practice preparedness phase (82.1%) was better than others. While Banyumas district’s practice recovery phase (76.7%) was best. The weakest disaster management practice in Pemalang was shown to be the mitigation phase (55.6%); but Banyumas district’s response phase (52.7%) was the weakest disaster management practice. Based on household characteristics, 316 Pemalang district employment was mostly in farming (64.1%). Conversely, households in Banyumas district worked as farmers (32.6%) and farm laborers (36.5%). Those located in the disaster prone II area, had agriculture as their main work because of the good quality of soil from Mt. Slamet. However, Pemalang district (94.0) had the healthier households when compared to Banyumas district (79.1)