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Alerts

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County-level fire alerts

One digest per day, only when a trigger fires in your county. Free, no marketing, unsubscribe in one click.

This is not an official alert system.

PCSN alerts are supplemental, not a replacement for county/state emergency notifications. Sign up for your county’s official system (CodeRED, Everbridge, Smart911) via /emergency. Alerts may lag or be missed, if you see flames or are told to evacuate, leave immediately.

What sends an alert
  • A new active fire within 25 miles of your county centroid (WFIGS source).
  • Your county sits in a top-decile fire-risk cell for the current week (Firewatch model).
  • A nearby PurpleAir sensor reports AQI > 150 (Unhealthy or worse).
  • An east-wind / foehn event is forecast in your region (Cascade-gap rule, NWS gridpoint).

One digest per day max, sent in the morning Pacific time. We do not send during quiet conditions.

Sign up

We map your ZIP to the nearest county centroid and tag the subscription for that county. One ZIP per signup, for multiple addresses, subscribe each separately. .

Privacy

Email and county tags are stored at Buttondown (a small US email-newsletter service). We do not sell, share, or use the list for anything other than these alerts. Unsubscribe at any time via the link in every email. PCSN is an independent citizen science project, not affiliated with any government agency or alerting authority.