AreaZineEditorial policy
Editorial policy
AreaZine publishes the agencies' notices as the agencies issued them, with the counts that put each one in context. It adds no opinion about a place, a company or a product, and it never rewrites what an agency told people to do.
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Who is responsible
AreaZine answers for every page it publishes; its owner is named on the about page. The studio's operator acts as editor: reported errors and changes to the methodology are reviewed against the agencies' records before a correction is made.
What we publish
Weather, flood and fire notices, earthquakes and FEMA disaster declarations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and recalls from Health Canada, the U.K. and Australian regulators. We do not publish U.S. recalls or FDA drug shortages, messages about individual people (such as child abduction alerts), or incidents that are not natural hazards (road crashes, alarms, house fires). Planned burns in New South Wales (hazard reductions and burn-offs) are counted on the fires page but not listed as incidents.
How a notice is written
The title and the first sentence of a notice are assembled from the agency's own fields by fixed templates; the agency's message is quoted unedited and credited. Comparisons ("the office's 45th red flag warning of 2026") come from complete archives or from AreaZine's own record, which then says from which date it is kept. No language model writes or summarises a notice.
Guides and research
Guides explain what the agencies' terms mean, following the agencies' own definitions and linking them. Research pages lead with a finding computed from the records and state their method and limits. They are drafted with AI tools and checked against the data and the agencies' documents before they are published; a figure that cannot be traced to a record is removed.
Advertising
Ads are served by Google AdSense. They sit between whole sections of a page, never inside a table or a chart and never before the answer at the top; notice pages carry no ads at all (no ad code loads on them), because their substance is the agency's own record. Advertisers do not see or influence what AreaZine publishes.
Corrections
Report an error to hello@areazine.com. We check it against the agency's record; if the error is ours, we fix the step that produced it, so every page it touched is corrected, and we list the correction with its date on the corrections page. If the agency's own record is wrong, we tell you where to report it and keep showing the record as issued.