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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 4804 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.

News Desert Recovery

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News desert — Humboldt County, NV

17,136 residents

No Curbside source covers this area yet. The Winnemucca market has nearby outlets, but none are tagged for Winnemucca.

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News desert — Humboldt County, NV

17,136 residents

No Curbside source covers this area yet. The Winnemucca market has nearby outlets, but none are tagged for Humboldt County Rural.

Suggest a source No covered neighbor yet Notify when coverage improves

Coverage by Market

Market Local Sources Coverage
Enid 0 desert
Winnemucca 0 desert
Parkersburg 1 thin
St. George 1 thin
Mansfield 2 thin
Elko 2 thin
Ely 2 thin
Beaumont-Port Arthur 3 thin
Lafayette 3 thin
Helena 3 thin
Harrisonburg 3 thin
Laredo 3 thin
Cody 3 thin
Logan 3 thin
Price 3 thin
Vernal 3 thin
Lubbock 4 moderate
Biloxi-Gulfport 4 moderate
Wheeling-Steubenville 4 moderate
Jackson 4 moderate
Pullman-Moscow 4 moderate
Sheridan 4 moderate
Jackson 4 moderate
Fairbanks 4 moderate
El Paso 5 moderate
Erie 5 moderate
Boise 5 moderate
Meridian 5 moderate
Wichita Falls-Lawton 5 moderate
Panama City 5 moderate
Alexandria 5 moderate
Cheyenne 5 moderate
Clarksburg-Weston 5 moderate
Zanesville 5 moderate
Victoria 5 moderate
Tuscaloosa 5 moderate
Twin Falls 5 moderate
Salisbury 6 moderate
Idaho Falls-Pocatello 6 moderate
Bowling Green 6 moderate
St. Louis 7 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
Eureka 7 moderate
Youngstown 8 moderate
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville 8 moderate
Macon 8 moderate
Yakima-Pasco-Richland 8 moderate
Bakersfield 8 moderate
Chico-Redding 8 moderate
Corpus Christi 8 moderate
Odessa-Midland 8 moderate
Charlottesville 8 moderate
Hattiesburg-Laurel 8 moderate
Bend 8 moderate
Quincy-Hannibal 8 moderate
Yuma-El Centro 8 moderate
Lufkin-Nacogdoches 8 moderate
Big Spring 8 moderate
Roswell 8 moderate
Glendive 8 moderate
Miles City 8 moderate
Austin 9 moderate
Rochester 9 moderate
Peoria-Bloomington 9 moderate
La Crosse-Eau Claire 9 moderate
Casper-Riverton 9 moderate
San Angelo 9 moderate
Sherman-Ada 9 moderate
Lewiston 9 moderate
Memphis 10 moderate
Mobile-Pensacola 10 moderate
Lansing 10 moderate
Evansville 10 moderate
Joplin-Pittsburg 10 moderate
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill 10 moderate
Hobbs 10 moderate
Rexburg 10 moderate
Pittsburgh 11 strong
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
Terre Haute 11 strong
Great Falls 11 strong
Tri-Cities TN-VA 11 strong
Albany 11 strong
Cincinnati 12 strong
Toledo 12 strong
Madison 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
Harrisburg-Lancaster-York 13 strong
Columbus 13 strong
Lima 13 strong
Juneau 13 strong
San Antonio 14 strong
Scranton-Wilkes Barre 14 strong
Dayton 14 strong
Spokane 14 strong
Springfield 14 strong
Greenwood-Greenville 14 strong
Missoula 14 strong
Abilene-Sweetwater 14 strong
Dothan 14 strong
Green Bay-Appleton 15 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
Louisville 16 strong
Orlando-Daytona Beach 17 strong
Charlotte 17 strong
San Diego 17 strong
Norfolk-Portsmouth 17 strong
Lexington 17 strong
Columbia-Jefferson City 17 strong
Salt Lake City 18 strong
Jacksonville 18 strong
Knoxville 18 strong
New Orleans 18 strong
Honolulu 18 strong
Butte-Bozeman 18 strong
Sioux City 18 strong
Charleston-Huntington 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
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
Richmond-Petersburg 23 strong
Houston 24 strong
Milwaukee 24 strong
Columbia 24 strong
Monterey-Salinas 24 strong
Jonesboro 24 strong
Rapid City 24 strong
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson 26 strong
Billings 26 strong
Tulsa 27 strong
Greenville-New Bern-Washington 27 strong
Champaign-Springfield-Decatur 28 strong
Rochester-Mason City-Austin 28 strong
Cleveland-Akron 29 strong
Kansas City 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
Duluth-Superior 33 strong
Washington DC 34 strong
Columbus 35 strong
Sioux Falls-Mitchell 38 strong
Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville 40 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
Seattle-Tacoma 71 strong
Des Moines-Ames 71 strong
Indianapolis 73 strong
Hartford-New Haven 73 strong
Boston 76 strong
Philadelphia 78 strong
Denver 80 strong
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 144 strong
New York 155 strong
Los Angeles 776 strong

Data updated every 30 minutes. Source: Curbside News aggregation of 4804 local newsrooms.