# Alerts and places

> Saved places, alert rules, the channels an alert can reach you on, and how an alert gets from the NWS to you.

Alerts and places · Overview · https://wxalerts.org/docs/alerts/

An alert only reaches you if WxAlerts knows where to watch. A *saved place* is
a location on your account, such as your house, a job site or your parents'
address, and every alert rule hangs off one. There is no radius to set: an
alert covers a place when the polygon the forecast office drew contains it.

This section covers adding places, what a rule can watch, the channels an alert
can reach you on, and how an alert gets from the National Weather Service to
you.

  Start with one place and one rule. It is much easier to add a second once you
  have seen what the first sounds like at 3 AM.