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CIVIC BADGE

ALERT
Public Safety
CODES
CEM · LAE · BLU · WEA Public Safety
RARITY
★☆☆☆☆ COMMON
UPGRADE
SENTINEL after 10 alerts

“Local officials had something to say. Loudly.”

⚠ Do not seek out these events. They will find you.

Never travel toward a storm, fire, flood or any emergency to earn a badge. This page is general safety information, not an alert. If you get a real alert, follow the instructions in it and from local officials.

What this alert means

Public Safety Alerts carry important information about a threat that is not imminent, or about what to do after one: road closures, missing or endangered people, boil-water notices, shelter locations and all-clears. They are less urgent than Imminent Threat alerts, and phones show them as a separate setting.

Common source codes include Civil Emergency Message (CEM), Local Area Emergency (LAE) and Blue Alerts (BLU, for threats to law enforcement).

What to do if you get one

  • Read it and follow any instructions.
  • Tap or visit the link in the alert (if there is one) for details from the sending agency.
  • If it is about a missing person, call 911 only if you have seen them.

Summarized from the official guidance below. The alert itself and your local authorities always come first.

How the badge is earned

A Public Safety WEA in your home area.

It happens automatically. The Badge Quest server reads the public FEMA IPAWS and National Weather Service alert feeds and awards the badge when an alert's official target area covers the home area you set (ZIP code or location). There's nothing to log or claim, and it can't be faked.

How rare is it?

COMMON ★☆☆☆☆: the COMMON tier means 1,000 or more WEA messages a year nationally. ~1,591 WEA messages/yr nationally (2023-25 avg: 1,120 / 1,650 / 2,002).

WEA-flagged alert messages in FEMA's IPAWS archive (IPAWS archive filter: PS_GEN). One message can cover a small area, so your personal odds are much lower.
YearCIVIC messagesAll WEA messages
20231,1207,349
20241,65010,377
20252,00210,284
Avg / yr1,5919,337

How rarity is calculated

Upgrade: SENTINEL

CIVIC badgeSENTINEL, the upgraded CIVIC badge: pixel art

SENTINEL

★★☆☆☆ UNCOMMON

After 10 different qualifying alerts for your area, the game shows “Hold on... your CIVIC badge is upgrading!” and then “Your CIVIC badge was upgraded to a SENTINEL!”. Repeats of the same alert don't count twice.

“Ten public safety notices. Road closed? You knew first. The town watch salutes you.”

Upgraded badges rank one rarity tier above their base badge (capped at LEGENDARY). That tier is a game rule, not a separate statistic.

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