# Add a saved place and reach more than one person

> Save a place from the gazetteer, choose which alerts it sends, and notify several people from one place.

Alerts and places · How-to guide · https://wxalerts.org/docs/alerts/saved-places/

A **saved place** is a location on your account. A **rule** decides which
alerts covering it reach you, and on which channel. What a rule can watch and
the channels it can use are listed in
[Rules and channels](/docs/alerts/rules-and-channels/).

There is no radius to set. An alert covers a place when the polygon the
National Weather Service drew contains it, which is the same test the live map
uses and the same one the forecast office intended.

## Add a place

1. Sign in and open **Places** on your account page.
2. Search for a city, county or ZIP. Places come from the site's own gazetteer
   rather than typed coordinates, so the hit carries a real position and a name
   you will recognise a year from now.
3. Choose what the place is worth telling you about. Warnings are ticked and
   the rest are not, which is the honest default: a warning means act now, and
   an advisory at 2 AM costs you your belief that a message from us matters.
4. Attach the channels that should hear about it.

How many places you can save, and how many people each one can notify, is what
a plan buys. See [pricing](/pricing/).

## Reach more than one person

A place can notify several people. Group somebody's number and address under
their name and they count once against your plan's limit, rather than once per
way of reaching them.

## If it did not work

- Check that the place is saved and not paused.
- An alert reaches a place when the Weather Service's warning area contains it.
  A county named in a warning is not always covered by it.
- If you are on a phone, see
  [Alerts on iPhone without the app](/docs/alerts/iphone-without-the-app/) for
  the checks specific to it.