Curbside News Investigation

1,659 of 3,143

US counties have no dedicated local news source on Curbside

That's 53% 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.

1,659 News deserts
0 working local feeds

131 Regional only
Market-level, no local outlet

341 Thin coverage
1 feed

426 Covered
2–3 feeds

889 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 4856 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.

Coverage by Market

Market	Local Sources	Coverage
Enid	0	desert
Winnemucca	0	desert
Wheeling-Steubenville	1	thin
Parkersburg	1	thin
St. George	1	thin
Ely	1	thin
Price	1	thin
Panama City	2	thin
Jackson	2	thin
Mansfield	2	thin
Elko	2	thin
Beaumont-Port Arthur	3	thin
Lafayette	3	thin
Helena	3	thin
Clarksburg-Weston	3	thin
Harrisonburg	3	thin
Zanesville	3	thin
Laredo	3	thin
Miles City	3	thin
Cody	3	thin
Logan	3	thin
Rexburg	3	thin
Vernal	3	thin
Lubbock	4	moderate
Biloxi-Gulfport	4	moderate
Eureka	4	moderate
Pullman-Moscow	4	moderate
Sheridan	4	moderate
Jackson	4	moderate
Fairbanks	4	moderate
El Paso	5	moderate
Erie	5	moderate
Wichita Falls-Lawton	5	moderate
Alexandria	5	moderate
Cheyenne	5	moderate
Victoria	5	moderate
Tuscaloosa	5	moderate
Twin Falls	5	moderate
Youngstown	6	moderate
Salisbury	6	moderate
Meridian	6	moderate
Corpus Christi	6	moderate
Bowling Green	6	moderate
West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce	7	moderate
Huntsville-Decatur	7	moderate
Chattanooga	7	moderate
Augusta-Aiken	7	moderate
Amarillo	7	moderate
Eugene	7	moderate
Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo	7	moderate
Wilmington	7	moderate
Ottumwa-Kirksville	7	moderate
Hagerstown	7	moderate
St. Joseph	7	moderate
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville	8	moderate
Macon	8	moderate
Bakersfield	8	moderate
Charlottesville	8	moderate
Hattiesburg-Laurel	8	moderate
Bend	8	moderate
Quincy-Hannibal	8	moderate
Lufkin-Nacogdoches	8	moderate
Roswell	8	moderate
Glendive	8	moderate
Austin	9	moderate
Rochester	9	moderate
Peoria-Bloomington	9	moderate
Evansville	9	moderate
La Crosse-Eau Claire	9	moderate
Yakima-Pasco-Richland	9	moderate
Odessa-Midland	9	moderate
Idaho Falls-Pocatello	9	moderate
Casper-Riverton	9	moderate
San Angelo	9	moderate
Sherman-Ada	9	moderate
Yuma-El Centro	9	moderate
Big Spring	9	moderate
Lewiston	9	moderate
Mobile-Pensacola	10	moderate
Lansing	10	moderate
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill	10	moderate
Hobbs	10	moderate
Albany-Schenectady-Troy	11	strong
Fresno-Visalia	11	strong
Baton Rouge	11	strong
Ft. Smith-Fayetteville	11	strong
Tallahassee-Thomasville	11	strong
Colorado Springs-Pueblo	11	strong
Wausau-Rhinelander	11	strong
Chico-Redding	11	strong
Terre Haute	11	strong
Great Falls	11	strong
Tri-Cities TN-VA	11	strong
Albany	11	strong
Cincinnati	12	strong
Harrisburg-Lancaster-York	12	strong
Toledo	12	strong
Reno	12	strong
Springfield-Holyoke	12	strong
Waco-Temple-Bryan	12	strong
Ft. Wayne	12	strong
Palm Springs	12	strong
Medford-Klamath Falls	12	strong
Anchorage	12	strong
Tampa-St. Petersburg	13	strong
Las Vegas	13	strong
Columbus	13	strong
Lima	13	strong
Juneau	13	strong
San Antonio	14	strong
Scranton-Wilkes Barre	14	strong
Dayton	14	strong
Green Bay-Appleton	14	strong
Spokane	14	strong
Springfield	14	strong
Greenwood-Greenville	14	strong
Missoula	14	strong
Abilene-Sweetwater	14	strong
Dothan	14	strong
Ft. Myers-Naples	15	strong
Savannah	15	strong
Traverse City-Cadillac	15	strong
Florence-Myrtle Beach	15	strong
Rockford	15	strong
Topeka	15	strong
Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg	15	strong
Tupelo-Columbus	15	strong
Ada-Ardmore	15	strong
Pittsburgh	16	strong
Norfolk-Portsmouth	16	strong
Louisville	16	strong
Memphis	16	strong
Orlando-Daytona Beach	17	strong
Charlotte	17	strong
San Diego	17	strong
Lexington	17	strong
Joplin-Pittsburg	17	strong
Columbia-Jefferson City	17	strong
Salt Lake City	18	strong
Jacksonville	18	strong
New Orleans	18	strong
Honolulu	18	strong
Butte-Bozeman	18	strong
Sioux City	18	strong
Charleston-Huntington	19	strong
Madison	19	strong
Tyler-Longview	19	strong
Augusta	19	strong
Roanoke-Lynchburg	19	strong
Miami-Fort Lauderdale	20	strong
Providence-New Bedford	20	strong
Baltimore	21	strong
Richmond-Petersburg	21	strong
Syracuse	21	strong
South Bend-Elkhart	21	strong
Raleigh-Durham	22	strong
Nashville	22	strong
Little Rock-Pine Bluff	22	strong
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo	23	strong
Buffalo	23	strong
Houston	24	strong
Milwaukee	24	strong
Columbia	24	strong
Monterey-Salinas	24	strong
Jonesboro	24	strong
Rapid City	24	strong
Tulsa	26	strong
Greenville-New Bern-Washington	26	strong
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson	26	strong
Billings	26	strong
St. Louis	27	strong
Boise	27	strong
Kansas City	28	strong
Knoxville	28	strong
Champaign-Springfield-Decatur	28	strong
Rochester-Mason City-Austin	28	strong
Cleveland-Akron	29	strong
Albuquerque-Santa Fe	29	strong
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point	29	strong
Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque	29	strong
Fargo-Valley City	32	strong
Washington DC	33	strong
Duluth-Superior	33	strong
Columbus	35	strong
Sioux Falls-Mitchell	38	strong
Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville	39	strong
Burlington-Plattsburgh	40	strong
Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney	41	strong
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto	44	strong
Dallas-Fort Worth	47	strong
Phoenix	47	strong
Oklahoma City	48	strong
Birmingham	49	strong
Portland	51	strong
Jackson	53	strong
Portland-Auburn	54	strong
Atlanta	55	strong
Minneapolis-St. Paul	55	strong
Chicago	56	strong
Wichita-Hutchinson	57	strong
Indianapolis	64	strong
Seattle-Tacoma	71	strong
Des Moines-Ames	71	strong
Hartford-New Haven	73	strong
Boston	76	strong
Philadelphia	80	strong
Denver	80	strong
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose	144	strong
New York	155	strong
Los Angeles	779	strong

Data updated every 30 minutes. Source: Curbside News aggregation of 4856 local newsrooms.