Sign Up for Emergency Alerts
Official alerts can provide critical minutes during rapidly changing emergencies.
Emergency alerts from the Village of Ruidoso and Lincoln County provide real-time notifications designed to help you act quickly when conditions change. Registration is free, takes only a few minutes, and could provide critical time during an emergency.
Official alerts are your earliest warning. Register now.
Emergency alerts from Lincoln County and the Village of Ruidoso are the fastest way to receive official information about wildfires, flooding, evacuation orders, road closures, and other emergencies.
These systems are designed to reach you wherever you are — on your phone, at home, or in your car.
Village of Ruidoso Alerts
Receive real-time alerts about emergencies, road closures, and severe weather through the Village of Ruidoso’s local notification system.
- Best for Village of Ruidoso residents
- Local emergency and road closure alerts
- Direct alerts to your phone
Lincoln County Alerts
Lincoln County uses the Genasys Emergency Alert System to send public safety notifications about severe weather, wildfires, evacuations, road closures, and other emergencies.
- Best for Lincoln County residents outside Village limits
- Choose phone, text, or email alerts
- Free account registration
Wireless Emergency Alerts
Wireless Emergency Alerts are free automatic messages sent directly to cell phones in a geographic area. If you are in an affected area, your phone can receive an alert automatically.
- Best for visitors and travelers
- Covers extreme weather, AMBER alerts, Presidential alerts, and some imminent local threats
- Most phones have WEA enabled by default
Which alert system should I use?
- Live in the Village of Ruidoso? Sign up for Call Me Ruidoso for local alerts.
- Live elsewhere in Lincoln County? Sign up for Lincoln County Genasys alerts.
- Visiting the area? Keep Wireless Emergency Alerts enabled on your phone.
- Want the strongest coverage? Use more than one alert source so you receive official information from multiple channels.
How alerts can reach you
Depending on the alert system and your settings, emergency notifications may be sent by phone call, text message, email, or automatic wireless alert.
Take two minutes now.
Emergency alerts are one of the most reliable ways to receive timely official instructions during rapidly changing wildfire, flood, evacuation, and severe weather situations.