# WSFA First Alert Weather

> Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id415720975](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id415720975)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id415720975`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (22,893 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.604
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2011-01-28
- **Size:** 262 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wsfa-first-alert-weather/id415720975)
- **Website:** [https://www.wsfa.com/page/download-our-apps/](https://www.wsfa.com/page/download-our-apps/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wsfa.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.wsfa.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

WSFA First Alert Weather is a mobile-optimized weather app from WSFA. It gives you access to station content for mobile users, a 250-meter radar, future radar, high-resolution satellite imagery, and weather updates multiple times per hour.

It also saves your favorite locations, uses a fully integrated GPS for current location awareness, and delivers National Weather Service severe weather alerts with opt-in push notifications to keep you safe. Daily and hourly forecasts are updated hourly from our computer models.

## Rankings

- #10,598 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews praise WSFA First Alert Weather for accurate, timely warnings and trusted local coverage, but consistently complain about radar issues, heavy ads, unreliable alerts, and general app instability that disrupts accessing forecasts and warnings.

### Pros

- Accurate and timely weather warnings from a trusted local team.
- Reliable local weather reporting and news from the WSFA weather team.
- Useful, safety-focused weather information that helps keep people informed during severe weather.

### Cons

- Radar reliability and visibility problems: radar data stops early, incomplete cycles, and warnings are hard to see due to poor contrast.
- Excessive ads and intrusive video ads that disrupt accessing forecasts.
- Alerts timing and delivery issues: push notifications can be late or duplicated and sometimes arrive after the threat has passed.
- Buggy performance and UI glitches: slow to launch, freezing videos, and ad-related playback issues.
- Location and map usability problems: hard-to-see location dot and warning boxes poorly distinguished on the radar map.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id415720975)