# North Carolina Weather Warnings Map, October 2026 | InstaMaps

> How many people in North Carolina are under a National Weather Service warning right now, by county, updated every 10 minutes. Warnings issued by month since 2008, a map to embed, CSVs. Free to cite.

Source: https://get-instamaps.com/data/warnings/north-carolina

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# North Carolina weather warnings map

Right now, 4,272 people in North Carolina are under a National Weather Service warning. That's under 0.1% of the state's 10,439,388 people, the 7th most of any state.

Updated Wed, 4:33 PM EDT · counted every 10 minutes  · 1 warning in force

In September 2026 the National Weather Service issued 140 warnings for North Carolina, the most for September since 2024.

The most at once this month: 4,272 people, on October 21 (counted since October 21).

## Warnings in force

* [Coastal Flood Warning](https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.658dc58a8bf19f6ce39c85b77a34e62a9471dbdd.001.1)  
Hatteras Island  
4,272 people · until Thu, 8:00 PM EDT

## By county

| County | People | Share |
| ------ | ------ | ----- |
| Dare   | 4,272  | 11.6% |

### By warning

* Coastal Flood Warning: 4,272 people

## Warnings issued for North Carolina, by month

National Weather Service warnings, each counted once in the month it was issued. From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive.

2024-102026-09

## Cite this

Free to quote and republish with a link. A line you can use:

4,272 people in North Carolina were under a National Weather Service warning at Wed, 4:33 PM EDT, according to InstaMaps, which counts them every 10 minutes from 2020 Census data (get-instamaps.com/data/warnings/north-carolina).

How it's counted: [method](/data/warnings/method). Questions or a cut we don't have: [gbade@get-instamaps.com](mailto:gbade@get-instamaps.com) (InstaMaps data team).

[Counties now (CSV)](/downloads/warnings/north-carolina.csv)[Every state by month (CSV)](/downloads/warnings/history.csv)

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The monthly report: [release dates](/data/warnings/calendar). Population: 2020 Census. Warnings: the National Weather Service, refreshed every 10 minutes.