Active weather warnings
1.3 million people are under a rip current statement in Florida · 158 active across the country, 70 of them warnings · From the National Weather Service
Flash flood · 2Flood · 21Winter · 1Fire weather · 1Heat · 1Marine · 120Rip current · 2Statement · 4Other · 6
This is a relay, not a warning system. Everything here comes from the National Weather Service and can lag. For anything affecting your safety, use weather.gov and local officials.
Most people affected
Estimated from the population of incorporated places inside each alert. An approximation, not a census - see the note below.
Rip current statement
1.3 million peopleCoastal Volusia · Coastal Indian River · Coastal St. Lucie · Coastal Martin · Mainland Northern Brevard · Northern Brevard Barrier Islands · Mainland Southern Brevard · Southern Brevard Barrier Islands
Rip current · 12h 0m left
Wind advisory
1.1 million peopleUpper Santa Cruz River and Altar Valleys including Nogales · Tucson Metro Area including Tucson/Green Valley/Marana/Vail · South Central Pinal County including Eloy/Picacho Peak State Park · Southeast Pinal County including Kearny/Mammoth/Oracle · Upper San Pedro River Valley including Sierra Vista/Benson · Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet including Douglas/Willcox · Upper Gila River and Aravaipa Valleys including Clifton/Safford · Galiuro and Pinaleno Mountains including Mount Graham · Chiricahua Mountains including Chiricahua National Monument · Dragoon/Mule/Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains including Bisbee/Canelo Hills/Madera Canyon · Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains including Mount Lemmon/Summerhaven · Baboquivari Mountains including Kitt Peak
Other · 1d left
Rip current statement
657,000 peopleMatagorda Islands · Brazoria Islands · Galveston Island · Bolivar Peninsula
Rip current · 18h 0m left
Coastal flood advisory
587,000 peopleMobile Coastal · Baldwin Coastal · Escambia Coastal · Santa Rosa Coastal · Okaloosa Coastal
Flood · 17h 0m left
Special weather statement
576,000 peopleInland Volusia · Northern Lake County · Orange · Seminole · Inland Northern Brevard · Mainland Northern Brevard
50 mph wind · radar indicated · 2026-10-03T19:50:00-00:00...storm...154DEG...24KT...28.74,-80.95 28.74,-81.26 28.54,-81.4
Statement · 15m left
Coastal flood advisory
418,000 peopleMobile Central · Baldwin Central
Flood · 17h 0m left
Coastal flood statement
349,000 peopleKenedy Island · Willacy Island · Cameron Island
Flood · 16h 0m left
Coastal flood advisory
258,000 peopleSouthern Hancock · Southern Harrison · Southern Jackson
Flood · 17h 0m left
Flood advisory
244,000 peopleCumberland, NC · Hoke, NC · Sampson, NC
radar indicated
Flood · 3h 0m left
Air quality alert
147,000 peopleImperial County Southwest · Imperial County Southeast · Imperial County West · Imperial Valley
Other · expired
Fire weather watch
136,000 peopleMiddle North Platte River Basin/Niobrara and Converse High Plains · North Laramie Range and Adjacent High Plains · North Laramie Valley/Shirley Basin · Ferris/Seminoe/Shirley Mountains · Central and West Carbon · North Snowy Range Foothills · Laramie Foothills and High Plains · Bordeaux/Chugwater/Wheatland
Fire weather · 2d left
Flood warning
86,000 peopleCalcasieu, LA
Flood · 2d left
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How “people affected” is worked out
A count of active warnings tells you almost nothing. A tornado warning over open ranchland and one over a metro area look identical in a list and are completely different events, so this page ranks by who is actually inside.
For a short-fused warning the Weather Service draws a polygon, and we sum the population of every Census place whose centre falls inside it. Longer-fused products - heat, winter, air quality - are issued against counties instead, so those are summed by county.
Both are estimates and the limits are worth stating. A city counts fully or not at all depending on which side of the boundary its centre falls, and anyone living outside an incorporated place is not counted. Large cities land wholly in one county - New York City’s centre is in Kings County, so an alert covering only Manhattan reports a fraction of the people actually under it. It is a ranking signal, not a headcount.
Source: National Weather Service alert feed (api.weather.gov), read every two minutes. County lines from the US Census Bureau; populations from the Census place list.