A weekend rental near Front Royal or Staunton draws calls from visitors you have never met.
List it with an 826 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number when the season is booked.
Local 826 numbers
Get an 826 phone number for Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg.
Ask for 826 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the Shenandoah Valley, Roanoke and Fredericksburg. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 826 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 826 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Weekend rental
(826) 555-0129
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Tutoring flyer
(826) 555-0165
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Job search
(826) 555-0101
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People ask for 826 when the search is in Roanoke, Harrisonburg or Fredericksburg.
A tutoring or lawn care side business in Blacksburg or Christiansburg gets calls from new customers.
Print an 826 number on the flyer, keep your own number private and end it when the work stops.
A job search around Roanoke and Salem leaves your number with many employers.
Put an 826 number on your resume, take the calls on your own phone and block it when the search is over.
This is where an 826 number is from.
Area code 826 is an all-services overlay of 540, so it covers the same area: the northwestern and southwestern portions of Virginia, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The administrator names Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Front Royal, Harrisonburg, Radford, Roanoke, Salem, Staunton, Waynesboro and Winchester among the larger cities.
Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, VA
Area code 826 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1995
540
Shares the area
2022
826
This code
- Roanoke
- Fredericksburg
- Harrisonburg
- Winchester
- Blacksburg
- Christiansburg
- Culpeper
- Front Royal
- Staunton
- Waynesboro
- Salem
- Radford
These are the facts about area code 826.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 22, 2026.
- Place
- Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, Virginia
- In service since
- 2022
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 540 (1995)
The Virginia State Corporation Commission approved the overlay on June 17, 2020, so no one had to change a number.
Permissive ten-digit dialing began on November 13, 2021, ten digits became mandatory on May 14, 2022, and 826 entered service on June 14, 2022.
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People ask these questions about getting an 826 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 826 as the area code and give it a name, such as Weekend rental. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A farrier, a photographer or a mover in Harrisonburg can put an 826 number on the card and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 826 area takes in Roanoke, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, Winchester, Blacksburg and Culpeper, and it shares the area with 540.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
You get 7 days free and pay $0 today. After 7 days your plan starts: $9.99 a month for Basic or $29.99 a month for Pro. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.
More area codes
Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 22, 2026.
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