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Curbside News Investigation

1,618 of 3,143

US counties have no dedicated local news source on Curbside

That's 51% of the country. In these counties, there are no working local RSS feeds — no newspaper sites, TV stations, or digital news outlets that Curbside can find. If a breaking local story happens here, there may be no one there to report it.

1,618 News deserts
0 working local feeds
49 Regional only
Market-level, no local outlet
481 Thin coverage
1 feed
635 Covered
2–3 feeds
649 Strong
4+ feeds
Coverage tiers
Desert — no coverage at any level
Regional only — market has sources but no local outlet
Thin — 1 source
Covered — 2–3 sources
Strong — 4+ sources
No data

County shading reflects sub-region-level source counts from Curbside's aggregation of 4006 local newsrooms. True deserts (dark red) have zero working local feeds at any level. Counties in regional only belong to DMA markets with sources, but those sources don't have a sub-region specific tag for this county. Learn about our methodology.

News Desert Recovery

These sub-regions have no Curbside-tagged local source. Pick a card to suggest an outlet, jump to the nearest covered community, or get notified when coverage improves.

Coverage by Market

Market Local Sources Coverage
Wheeling-Steubenville 1 thin
Laredo 1 thin
Enid 1 thin
St. George 1 thin
Elko 1 thin
Parkersburg 2 thin
Victoria 2 thin
Ely 2 thin
Winnemucca 2 thin
Flint-Saginaw-Bay City 2 thin
Lubbock 3 thin
Alexandria 3 thin
Helena 3 thin
Zanesville 3 thin
Mansfield 3 thin
San Angelo 3 thin
Cody 3 thin
Fairbanks 3 thin
Price 3 thin
Vernal 3 thin
Marquette 3 thin
El Paso 4 moderate
Beaumont-Port Arthur 4 moderate
Meridian 4 moderate
Biloxi-Gulfport 4 moderate
Jackson 4 moderate
Cheyenne 4 moderate
Harrisonburg 4 moderate
Pullman-Moscow 4 moderate
Jackson 4 moderate
Logan 4 moderate
West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce 5 moderate
Erie 5 moderate
Boise 5 moderate
Wichita Falls-Lawton 5 moderate
Quincy-Hannibal 5 moderate
Tuscaloosa 5 moderate
Lufkin-Nacogdoches 5 moderate
Twin Falls 5 moderate
Sheridan 5 moderate
Tucson-Sierra Vista 5 moderate
Chattanooga 6 moderate
Salisbury 6 moderate
Amarillo 6 moderate
Corpus Christi 6 moderate
Idaho Falls-Pocatello 6 moderate
Panama City 6 moderate
Charlottesville 6 moderate
Hattiesburg-Laurel 6 moderate
Greenwood-Greenville 6 moderate
Bend 6 moderate
Bowling Green 6 moderate
Hagerstown 6 moderate
Yuma-El Centro 6 moderate
Big Spring 6 moderate
Miles City 6 moderate
Augusta-Aiken 7 moderate
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville 7 moderate
Peoria-Bloomington 7 moderate
Ft. Smith-Fayetteville 7 moderate
Eugene 7 moderate
Chico-Redding 7 moderate
Odessa-Midland 7 moderate
Ottumwa-Kirksville 7 moderate
St. Joseph 7 moderate
Sherman-Ada 7 moderate
Glendive 7 moderate
Montgomery-Selma 7 moderate
Omaha 7 moderate
Memphis 8 moderate
Youngstown 8 moderate
Tallahassee-Thomasville 8 moderate
Macon 8 moderate
Joplin-Pittsburg 8 moderate
Bakersfield 8 moderate
Wilmington 8 moderate
Lafayette 8 moderate
Clarksburg-Weston 8 moderate
St. Louis 9 moderate
Lansing 9 moderate
Rockford 9 moderate
La Crosse-Eau Claire 9 moderate
Palm Springs 9 moderate
Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo 9 moderate
Yakima-Pasco-Richland 9 moderate
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill 9 moderate
Tri-Cities TN-VA 9 moderate
Roswell 9 moderate
Lewiston 9 moderate
Toledo 10 moderate
Huntsville-Decatur 10 moderate
Albany 10 moderate
Pittsburgh 11 strong
Austin 11 strong
Fresno-Visalia 11 strong
Springfield 11 strong
Madison 11 strong
Springfield-Holyoke 11 strong
Waco-Temple-Bryan 11 strong
Ft. Wayne 11 strong
Columbus 11 strong
Wausau-Rhinelander 11 strong
Terre Haute 11 strong
Great Falls 11 strong
Casper-Riverton 11 strong
Tupelo-Columbus 11 strong
Hobbs 11 strong
Cincinnati 12 strong
Mobile-Pensacola 12 strong
Evansville 12 strong
Baton Rouge 12 strong
Medford-Klamath Falls 12 strong
Missoula 12 strong
Abilene-Sweetwater 12 strong
Eureka 12 strong
Dothan 12 strong
Ada-Ardmore 12 strong
Rexburg 12 strong
Harrisburg-Lancaster-York 13 strong
Ft. Myers-Naples 13 strong
Traverse City-Cadillac 13 strong
Florence-Myrtle Beach 13 strong
Reno 13 strong
Colorado Springs-Pueblo 13 strong
Columbia-Jefferson City 13 strong
Las Vegas 14 strong
Norfolk-Portsmouth 14 strong
Dayton 14 strong
Albany-Schenectady-Troy 14 strong
Rochester 14 strong
Spokane 14 strong
Topeka 14 strong
Jonesboro 14 strong
Sioux City 14 strong
Lima 14 strong
San Antonio 15 strong
Scranton-Wilkes Barre 15 strong
South Bend-Elkhart 15 strong
Savannah 15 strong
Butte-Bozeman 15 strong
Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg 15 strong
Juneau 15 strong
Detroit 15 strong
San Diego 16 strong
Louisville 16 strong
Green Bay-Appleton 16 strong
Greenville-New Bern-Washington 16 strong
Tampa-St. Petersburg 17 strong
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo 17 strong
Knoxville 17 strong
Tyler-Longview 17 strong
Anchorage 17 strong
Tulsa 18 strong
Augusta 18 strong
Jacksonville 19 strong
Buffalo 19 strong
Little Rock-Pine Bluff 19 strong
Honolulu 19 strong
Miami-Fort Lauderdale 20 strong
Baltimore 20 strong
Nashville 20 strong
Providence-New Bedford 20 strong
Syracuse 20 strong
Columbia 20 strong
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson 20 strong
Billings 20 strong
Rapid City 20 strong
Charlotte 21 strong
New Orleans 21 strong
Roanoke-Lynchburg 21 strong
Milwaukee 22 strong
Charleston-Huntington 22 strong
Lexington 22 strong
Monterey-Salinas 22 strong
Cleveland-Akron 23 strong
Orlando-Daytona Beach 24 strong
Salt Lake City 24 strong
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point 24 strong
Raleigh-Durham 25 strong
Kansas City 25 strong
Richmond-Petersburg 25 strong
Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque 25 strong
Rochester-Mason City-Austin 25 strong
Houston 26 strong
Albuquerque-Santa Fe 26 strong
Duluth-Superior 27 strong
Fargo-Valley City 27 strong
Champaign-Springfield-Decatur 29 strong
Columbus 33 strong
Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney 34 strong
Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville 35 strong
Sioux Falls-Mitchell 35 strong
Jackson 37 strong
Phoenix 38 strong
Wichita-Hutchinson 38 strong
Washington DC 39 strong
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto 39 strong
Burlington-Plattsburgh 39 strong
Oklahoma City 40 strong
Birmingham 41 strong
Portland-Auburn 44 strong
Portland 51 strong
Dallas-Fort Worth 52 strong
Chicago 61 strong
Atlanta 61 strong
Hartford-New Haven 62 strong
Des Moines-Ames 62 strong
Minneapolis-St. Paul 64 strong
Seattle-Tacoma 67 strong
Indianapolis 72 strong
Philadelphia 74 strong
Denver 81 strong
Boston 86 strong
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 137 strong
New York 150 strong
Los Angeles 155 strong

Data updated every 30 minutes. Source: Curbside News aggregation of 4006 local newsrooms.