Curbside News Investigation

1,672 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.

1,672 News deserts
0 working local feeds

237 Regional only
Market-level, no local outlet

334 Thin coverage
1 feed

445 Covered
2–3 feeds

611 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 5037 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
Wheeling-Steubenville	0	desert
Enid	0	desert
Winnemucca	1	thin
Lafayette	2	thin
Clarksburg-Weston	2	thin
Panama City	3	thin
Twin Falls	3	thin
Cody	3	thin
St. George	3	thin
Price	3	thin
Beaumont-Port Arthur	4	moderate
Parkersburg	4	moderate
Helena	4	moderate
Cheyenne	4	moderate
Mansfield	4	moderate
Laredo	4	moderate
Miles City	4	moderate
Logan	4	moderate
Ely	4	moderate
Vernal	4	moderate
Erie	5	moderate
Meridian	5	moderate
Chico-Redding	5	moderate
Jackson	5	moderate
Bowling Green	5	moderate
Sheridan	5	moderate
Rexburg	5	moderate
Youngstown	6	moderate
El Paso	6	moderate
Zanesville	6	moderate
Eureka	6	moderate
Pullman-Moscow	6	moderate
Columbus	7	moderate
Wausau-Rhinelander	7	moderate
Biloxi-Gulfport	7	moderate
Wilmington	7	moderate
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill	7	moderate
Great Falls	7	moderate
Yuma-El Centro	7	moderate
Jackson	7	moderate
Elko	7	moderate
Pittsburgh	8	moderate
Chattanooga	8	moderate
Lubbock	8	moderate
Amarillo	8	moderate
Yakima-Pasco-Richland	8	moderate
Corpus Christi	8	moderate
Idaho Falls-Pocatello	8	moderate
Charlottesville	8	moderate
Greenwood-Greenville	8	moderate
Bend	8	moderate
Harrisonburg	8	moderate
St. Joseph	8	moderate
San Angelo	8	moderate
Glendive	8	moderate
Augusta-Aiken	9	moderate
Salisbury	9	moderate
Eugene	9	moderate
Odessa-Midland	9	moderate
Hagerstown	9	moderate
Victoria	9	moderate
Lufkin-Nacogdoches	9	moderate
Columbia	10	moderate
Joplin-Pittsburg	10	moderate
Palm Springs	10	moderate
Bakersfield	10	moderate
Terre Haute	10	moderate
Hattiesburg-Laurel	10	moderate
Toledo	11	strong
Rochester	11	strong
Evansville	11	strong
Tallahassee-Thomasville	11	strong
La Crosse-Eau Claire	11	strong
Wichita Falls-Lawton	11	strong
Tri-Cities TN-VA	11	strong
Abilene-Sweetwater	11	strong
Sherman-Ada	11	strong
Tuscaloosa	11	strong
West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce	12	strong
Memphis	12	strong
Austin	12	strong
Spokane	12	strong
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville	12	strong
Baton Rouge	12	strong
Quincy-Hannibal	12	strong
Lima	12	strong
Dothan	12	strong
Big Spring	12	strong
Albany-Schenectady-Troy	13	strong
Fresno-Visalia	13	strong
Waco-Temple-Bryan	13	strong
Ft. Wayne	13	strong
Missoula	13	strong
Lewiston	13	strong
Harrisburg-Lancaster-York	14	strong
Scranton-Wilkes Barre	14	strong
Huntsville-Decatur	14	strong
Madison	14	strong
Ft. Myers-Naples	14	strong
Greenville-New Bern-Washington	14	strong
Ft. Smith-Fayetteville	14	strong
Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo	14	strong
Medford-Klamath Falls	14	strong
Albany	14	strong
Reno	15	strong
Tupelo-Columbus	15	strong
Roswell	15	strong
Cincinnati	16	strong
San Antonio	16	strong
Dayton	16	strong
Florence-Myrtle Beach	16	strong
Rockford	16	strong
Topeka	16	strong
Ottumwa-Kirksville	16	strong
Billings	16	strong
Butte-Bozeman	16	strong
Macon	17	strong
San Diego	18	strong
Norfolk-Portsmouth	18	strong
Green Bay-Appleton	18	strong
Syracuse	18	strong
Springfield	18	strong
South Bend-Elkhart	18	strong
Tyler-Longview	18	strong
Monterey-Salinas	18	strong
Honolulu	18	strong
Las Vegas	19	strong
Buffalo	19	strong
Peoria-Bloomington	19	strong
Savannah	19	strong
Alexandria	19	strong
Jonesboro	19	strong
Columbia-Jefferson City	19	strong
Hobbs	19	strong
Traverse City-Cadillac	20	strong
Springfield-Holyoke	20	strong
Casper-Riverton	20	strong
Rapid City	20	strong
Fairbanks	20	strong
Jacksonville	21	strong
Augusta	21	strong
Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg	21	strong
Houston	23	strong
St. Louis	23	strong
Lexington	23	strong
Boise	23	strong
Roanoke-Lynchburg	23	strong
Salt Lake City	24	strong
Knoxville	24	strong
Ada-Ardmore	24	strong
Orlando-Daytona Beach	25	strong
Richmond-Petersburg	25	strong
Mobile-Pensacola	25	strong
Champaign-Springfield-Decatur	25	strong
Rochester-Mason City-Austin	25	strong
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson	25	strong
Juneau	27	strong
Fargo-Valley City	28	strong
Sioux City	28	strong
Tulsa	29	strong
Lansing	29	strong
Charleston-Huntington	30	strong
Columbus	31	strong
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point	32	strong
Providence-New Bedford	33	strong
Jackson	33	strong
Anchorage	34	strong
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto	35	strong
Raleigh-Durham	36	strong
Colorado Springs-Pueblo	36	strong
Nashville	37	strong
Baltimore	38	strong
Milwaukee	38	strong
New Orleans	38	strong
Sioux Falls-Mitchell	39	strong
Tampa-St. Petersburg	40	strong
Louisville	40	strong
Duluth-Superior	40	strong
Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque	40	strong
Kansas City	41	strong
Miami-Fort Lauderdale	42	strong
Little Rock-Pine Bluff	42	strong
Cleveland-Akron	43	strong
Burlington-Plattsburgh	46	strong
Albuquerque-Santa Fe	49	strong
Birmingham	49	strong
Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville	49	strong
Portland-Auburn	50	strong
Washington DC	54	strong
Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney	56	strong
Portland	63	strong
Wichita-Hutchinson	64	strong
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose	66	strong
Charlotte	66	strong
Oklahoma City	67	strong
Phoenix	68	strong
Indianapolis	70	strong
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo	70	strong
Hartford-New Haven	71	strong
Dallas-Fort Worth	73	strong
Des Moines-Ames	77	strong
Atlanta	80	strong
Minneapolis-St. Paul	81	strong
Seattle-Tacoma	82	strong
Philadelphia	104	strong
Boston	113	strong
Denver	113	strong
Chicago	118	strong
Los Angeles	167	strong
New York	188	strong

Data updated every 30 minutes. Source: Curbside News aggregation of 5037 local newsrooms.