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About AreaZine
AreaZine keeps a record of the official warnings and notices that agencies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia publish: weather and flood warnings, fire incidents, earthquakes, FEMA disaster declarations, and recalls outside the U.S. Each notice links to the agency's own page, and each place and warning type shows how often it happens.
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Who publishes it
AreaZine is published under its own name and owned by Kiznis Studio, which answers for it: every count, every sentence, every correction. The studio is one person who builds public-record reference sites, using AI tools for most of the building. Reader mail goes to hello@areazine.com; the studio's operator reads it and checks each reported error against the issuing agency's own record before anything changes.
Who checks what
Before this version of the site went live, a separate recount script, written apart from the site's own code, recounted 15 of its figures on 10 kinds of page from the agencies' raw files and live catalogues (the NWS archive year files, OpenFEMA, the Environment Agency's history file, the British Geological Survey's database); on 30 September 2026 all 15 matched. The methodology lists them. Reported errors are reviewed by the studio's operator, acting as editor, against the agency's record before a correction is made.
Where each figure comes from
A figure never stands alone: the section that shows it ends with a source line that names the file and links to it. The records come from the National Weather Service and the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of its warnings, OpenFEMA, the U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquakes Canada, Geoscience Australia, the British Geological Survey, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Health Canada, the Environment Agency, the Food Standards Agency, the MHRA, the OPSS, the NSW Rural Fire Service, the Bureau of Meteorology, the ACCC and Food Standards Australia New Zealand. What each count includes, and where a record has gaps, is set out in the methodology.
How the pages are built
Collectors poll each agency's feed on its own schedule, from every few minutes to once a day, and store the record untouched. A notice page is assembled from that record's fields by fixed rules; no language model writes a notice or a count. The code, the designs and the prose of the guides and research pages were written with AI tools, and that prose is checked against the numbers, each of which is a database query run when the page opens.
What AreaZine is not
This information is for general reference only and should not be considered safety, emergency, legal or financial advice. It is not a warning service, and no agency it records is connected to it. Use it for reference, not for safety decisions: while a warning is in force, the issuing agency, local emergency management and the alerts on your phone come first. AreaZine can lag the agency by minutes, and an agency may change or withdraw a notice after it is recorded here.
Money
Google AdSense ads pay for the site. No advertiser sees or shapes a page before it is published, and notice pages (the agencies' warnings, alerts, fires, earthquakes and recalls) carry no ads: no ad code loads on them. The privacy page names each tool the site loads and the data it keeps.
Reaching us
Questions and error reports: hello@areazine.com. Every correction is dated on the corrections page, and the editorial policy describes how a report is handled.