Know Your Emergency Alerts
The City of Santa Rosa uses multiple notification and warning systems to make sure emergency alerts are delivered to the people who need the information. Make sure you are signed up for the systems that require subscription and understand how they are used for emergency communications.
Watch Videos
The following videos provide an overview of the City’s emergency alert and warning systems in English and in Spanish.
Review Flyer or Chart Below
Please study the information below or download the City’s alerts and warnings flyer to review all notification tools: English | Spanish
Emergency Alert System (EAS) National public warning system that will interrupt local broadcast tv and radio programming to provide an alert in the event of a large-scale emergency. No registration required. | |
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) No registration required. | |
SoCoAlert | |
Nixle Must register at nixle.com or text your zip code to 888-777 A few things to note about recent changes in Nixle services provided by Everbridge (6.19.20) | |
Local Radio and Television Tune radio to 1350 AM, 103.5 FM, 100.1 FM, 89.1 FM (bilingual), 98.7 FM (Spanish); watch preferred local TV news channel. | |
Hi/Lo Sirens Watch a brief video with the sound turned "on" to hear the Hi/Lo siren. | |
All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is a low-cost home alerting tool that can be remotely activated by the National Weather Service(NWS) to broadcast life-saving warnings issued by first responders. NWRs include battery backups. Learn how to operate your radio. To work, Sonoma County residents must tune their NWR to frequency 162.475. Radios furnished by the city of Santa Rosa are pre-programmed to this frequency. An alert sounds like this: |