Local brief
Multnomah emergency alerts: use OR-Alert, not a separate county social feed
Multnomah County emergency management no longer runs separate social pages. Sign up for local alerts at oralert.gov. An empty hub card is not an all-clear.
Multnomah County’s emergency management contact page says the office no longer keeps its own social media pages. For preparedness and response news, the county tells people to follow the county’s main pages on Facebook, X, or Bluesky. A last-review date on that page is September 14, 2026. The page lists an email for emergency management and a mailing address in Portland. It does not, by itself, sign you up for a text alert.
For texts and calls, start at oralert.gov and search Multnomah County. Oregon says each county has its own sign-up, and that Everbridge is the system used by all 36 counties. Alerts are free. You can also text a ZIP code to 888777 for a basic alert. Wireless emergency alerts can still hit phones in a mapped area during a major hazard even if you never registered.
The Notice Nearby hub has a county-alerts block that says nothing has been posted from the county’s email list. An empty block does not mean the county is quiet. It means this register has not received a message to publish. In a real emergency, follow the county, the sheriff, and OR-Alert. Do not wait for a card on noticenearby.com.
Weather on the hub is a forecast grid. It is not a warning. If the National Weather Service issues a warning, the warning text and the end time belong in a dated public-safety brief, with the source. Do not leave a standing “storm” card with no clock time.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-P1-OR-012 · multco.us.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.