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Start with whoever handles the problem where you are: the alert system, road agency, utility, health department, or support service. The map helps you find the right source. The source gives the instructions.

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A postal search finds an approximate census area, not an address or emergency-service boundary. Choose a point on the map when you need the exact service area.

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How boundaries are used Boundaries help locate sources. The notes explain city exceptions and regional partnerships. A map boundary never decides First Nation authority.

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What the optional outlines mean

Signals shows a service or jurisdiction outline only when a relevant official boundary is available. These outlines affect the map alone; they do not remove sources from the directory.

Alert-authority registryChecking…

All 39 Washington counties and all 36 Oregon counties are drawn from their official state directories. B.C. records distinguish the local authority that requests or issues an alert from the provincial ministry that transmits a BC Emergency Alert.

Washington directory ↗ OR-Alert directory ↗ B.C. alert guidelines ↗
U.S. state, county, and municipal boundariesChecking…

Current U.S. Census TIGERweb government geography for Washington, Oregon, all 75 counties, and the city alert sources included in this beta. Boundaries support applicability but do not describe every service arrangement.

Census state and county source ↗
B.C. province, regional-district, and municipal boundariesChecking…

Official Province of British Columbia legal administrative boundaries for the province, 27 regional districts, and mapped city alert sources. Regional-district geometry is never treated as proof that the district program serves every municipality inside it.

B.C. legal boundaries source ↗
NWS office forecast areas — U.S.Checking…

Official NOAA/NWS County Warning Area geometry for the six forecast offices serving Washington and Oregon, simplified only for regional display.

NOAA reference layer ↗
ECCC public forecast zones — B.C.Checking…

Official Environment and Climate Change Canada public forecast-zone geometry used for most forecasts, warnings, watches, advisories, and special weather statements. These are durable service zones, not a display of current alerts.

ECCC / MSC forecast-zone source ↗
Tribal reference geographyChecking…

Selected U.S. Census TIGERweb reservation and trust-land legal/statistical areas. These are not ancestral-territory maps and are not assumed to be emergency-service boundaries.

Census tribal geography source ↗
Postal-area locatorOn demand

Five-digit U.S. lookups use 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. B.C. lookups use 2021 Statistics Canada census forward sortation areas—the first three postal-code characters. Both are approximate statistical geography and can cross service jurisdictions.

Census ZCTA source ↗ Statistics Canada FSA source ↗
No assumed service area

When an official source has no reliable mapped service area, Signals keeps the listing and leaves the outline off the map. A legal boundary helps locate a place; it does not prove who serves it. Signals does not display live incident areas.