Reverse 911

Most Oro Valley residents know they can call 9-1-1 to get assistance in the event of a police, fire, or medical emergency. With the Reverse 911 system, Oro Valley’s emergency services personnel can also notify residents and businesses about a potential emergency circumstance.

The Reverse 911 Community Notification System allows the Town of Oro Valley to rapidly notify specific geographic areas by telephone. What may have taken hours consuming a large portion of personnel to accomplish can be done in a fraction of that time with little impact on officer deployment.

In the event of an emergency, Oro Valley's emergency services personnel can identify the affected area of Oro Valley and record a message that describes the situation and recommends the protective actions residents should take. The Reverse 911 system will automatically call out to all telephone numbers within that geographic area and deliver the recorded message. If phone lines are busy, the system will attempt to redial those numbers a predetermined number of times to make contact. The system is designed to play the message upon voice activation, such as if an answering machine picks up the call, the emergency message will be left on the machine.

• Missing person alerts

• Emergency evacuations

• Crime alerts to specific areas

• Natural disaster alerts

• Weather related safety warnings

• Hazardous material leaks

• Neighborhood emergency situations

• Homeland Security alerts

Am I in the database?

Please register to ensure that your preferred contact number is in our database. With many residents using a cell phone as their only phone, we encourage everyone to register so that if something happens in your neighborhood, we can reach you.

Now, before such an emergency happens, the Town of Oro Valley wants to ensure that we have contact information for all of our residents and businesses. If you are an Oro Valley resident and you would like to register your cell phone or broadband/VOIP phone number, please fill out and submit the online registration form.