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Sign up to get emergency alerts when an emergency is happening near you or your loved ones. Log in and update your account if your address or contact information changes.

Find Your County's Alerting System

 

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Each county has its own emergency alert system. Find your county's signup website below. 
Sign up in each county where you spend a lot of time. 

In Oregon

In Washington

Find your county signup page:

If you don't know which county you are in, enter your address in the search box or click on the map below. This will redirect you to the appropriate county signup website. The search box and the map below only work for counties in the Portland Metro Region. To find signup pages for other areas of Oregon, visit www.ORAlert.gov

 

 

About These Alerts

 

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This website (PublicAlerts.org) and the State of Oregon’s website (ORAlert.gov) are tools that help direct people to their county’s "opt-in" emergency alert system signup pages. 

Each county has an emergency alerting system that allows them to send urgent information to people based on an address. In the Portland-Vancouver Metro Area, these alerts are called "PublicAlerts." You can receive PublicAlerts by text, voice, email, or landline. Personal information is kept secure and private. The service is free, but message and data rates may apply depending on your phone provider. 

Texting your zip code to 888777 will not work in the Portland-Vancouver Region, but it might work in some other parts of Oregon and Washington. Learn more about emergency alerts.