Frequently Asked Questions

This service allows you to opt-in to receive notifications via phone calls, text messaging, email, and more based on locations you care about. You can choose to receive notifications about events that may affect your home, workplace, family schools, and more.

This system will be used to notify you about imminent threats to health and safety as well as informational notifications that affect your locations or work environments. Administrators will send notifications regarding severe weather, flooding, gas leaks, police activity, and more. Select the "Program Updates" box under alerts to receive information when there are added features.

Changes in home or business may happen faster than updated information received from telecommunications companies. We encourage homes and businesses with landline numbers to sign up. That way, you control the accuracy of the data if/when changes occur.

If you don't create a username and password, you will receive notifications only if you have a published landline phone and are in the geographical area where a notification is sent.

We encourage all members of a single household to sign up. Families are not together all the time and by everyone signing up, everyone can be notified.

You can create an account listing your family member's phone as the first line of notification, and yours as the second. This way you know if you are notified, your family member may not have been. This will prompt you to check in with them to make sure they are safe.

The system is only as good as the information you provide. If your contact information changes, you can always visit your profile and update your information.

There are links on the login screen to reset or retrieve usernames and passwords. Yamhill County Alerts does not have access to your login profile information. By following the links, you will be instructed on the steps to take to reset or retrieve usernames or passwords.

No. The information that you provide will be used only for this Organization for notification purposes. We will not give or sell your contact or location information to any vendor or other organization.