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Fire Situational Awareness, Area Study & Land Navigation
September 2026
Highlights:
+Fire Situational Awareness — live satellite detection, incidents, perimeters and smoke
+Route fire warning — know when your route passes near an active fire
+Area Study — draw, measure, annotate and share a study of any area
+Land Navigation — UTM/MGRS grid overlay, MGRS readout, and bearings
+Vehicle-aware routing — truck, RV and motorcycle dimensions and preferences
+On-device encryption with a recovery key
+Monthly billing — choose a monthly or yearly plan
+New hazard data — avalanche forecasts, tropical outlooks, and state fire agencies
Fire Situational Awareness
•Nationwide satellite fire detection — NASA FIRMS polar orbiters plus NOAA HMS analyses
•Active incident points from WFIGS with containment percentage, acreage and agency attribution
•Official fire perimeters from NIFC — the mapped edge of a fire, not an estimate
•Observed active area — hulls and footprint cells built from where fire was actually detected, so the map shows what has been seen rather than a circle around it
•Smoke plume overlay from NOAA HMS smoke analyses (light, medium, heavy)
•Freshness indicators on every fire — how recently it was observed, so a stale detection never looks live
•State agency incident feeds: CAL FIRE and Texas A&M Forest Service
•Route fire warning — a planned route that passes near an active fire raises a two-tier warning, re-checked as you drive
Area Study
•Draw range rings, bearings and shapes over any area you are studying
•Edit geometry after the fact — move vertices, adjust ring radii and centers
•Notes and a running log — baseline and observation notes, tagged and searchable
•Export, import and share a study with someone else
•Works on mobile, desktop and web, with the panel docking to the side on wide or landscape screens
Land Navigation
•UTM/MGRS grid overlay with zone bands and 10 km and 1 km grid lines
•Tick marks at 1 km along the 10 km lines, and 100 m ticks at high zoom
•MGRS coordinate readout to five-digit precision
•Bearing tool — take, record and revisit bearings from any point
Routing & Navigation
•Vehicle profiles — height, weight and length for trucks and RVs, applied to the route itself
•Motorcycle routing preferences, including avoid tolls and avoid highways
•Emergency routing costing for getting out quickly
•Obstacle avoidance — mark a hazard and route around it
•Saved destinations and saved routes, synced across your devices
•Upgraded Valhalla routing engine
Privacy & Security
•Records encrypted on the device at rest
•Encryption key held in the operating system keystore
•Recovery key so you can restore access to your encrypted data
•Encrypted pin sharing with people you know, via claim codes
•Location caches that were previously stored in plain text are now encrypted
Accounts & Billing
•Monthly billing — choose a monthly plan instead of paying for a full year up front
New Data Sources
•NOAA HMS — fire detections and smoke analyses
•NIFC — official wildfire perimeters
•CAL FIRE and Texas A&M Forest Service — state incident feeds
•Avalanche forecasts
•Tropical formation outlooks for the Atlantic, Pacific and Central Pacific basins
•A NOAA relay that restored hurricane data after direct access was blocked
Fixes
•Expired weather alerts no longer render as live on the map
•Cancelled alerts now close properly instead of staying active
•The map no longer overstates how much fire exists
•Map regions that failed their download check can be downloaded again
•Weather forecasts refresh reliably across the country
+Global Alerts (🌍) for worldwide earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, radiation spikes
+Family Sharing — true E2EE pin sync between household members
+Pins (unified) — Markers, Favorites and Places merged into one searchable list
+Cross-state road trip planning with CONUS highway overview
+GDELT geopolitical intelligence and GDACS global disaster alerts
+NASA FIRMS satellite fire detection
+Device-based authentication — login once, never again
Radiation Monitoring
•Real-time radiation data from Safecast (global, 150M+ readings)
•Color-coded station markers on map: green (normal) through red (dangerous)
•Station popup with current reading, source, and 24-hour sparkline chart
•Tiered alerts: elevated (nearby users), high (state), dangerous (country), extreme (global 🌍 push to all users worldwide)
•Station offline detection — coverage gap alerts when 3+ stations go dark in a region
•Dashboard widget showing stations monitored, elevated count, and highest reading
Cross-State Navigation
•CONUS highway overview map — interstates, US routes, and secondary highways visible at low zoom
•Highway route labels (I-10, US-66, etc.) and city names from zoom level 5
•Cross-state trip routing — download the states you'll travel through; each leg is calculated as you cross into the next state and its map loads automatically
•Road Trip planner with multi-stop waypoints, saved trips with encrypted cloud sync, and missing-map detection
•Trip Navigation HUD with leg progress, distance/time remaining, and waypoint arrival prompts
•Tap-the-map waypoint placement — toast indicator and mobile minimize-reopen flow
•GPS auto-switch: automatically loads the correct state map as you cross boundaries
•CONUS state overlay: downloaded states show green, missing states dim — see your trip coverage at a glance
Global Alerts
•Push notifications for worldwide-significant events that don't depend on which maps you've downloaded
•Large earthquakes (magnitude 6.5+) anywhere in the world
•Major hurricanes and tropical cyclones (Category 3+)
•Volcano warnings (WARNING alert level, aviation RED, and ash advisories)
•Radiation spikes (extreme readings above 10 µSv/h at any Safecast station)
•Four independent toggles in Settings → Global Alerts, all on by default
•Alerts display a 🌍 badge so you can tell they bypassed the map filter
New Data Sources
•GDELT: geopolitical intelligence — civil unrest, protests, infrastructure failures, humanitarian crises from global news monitoring
•NASA FIRMS: satellite fire/hotspot detection with VIIRS/MODIS — individual fire detections every 3 hours
•Source tiering system: Tier 1 (Government) through Tier 4 (Community) classification for all data feeds
•Circuit breaker pattern: automatic failover to cached data when external APIs go down
Family Sharing
•End-to-end encrypted (AES-GCM-256) pin sharing between family members — server stores only ciphertext, never plaintext
•Owner sends an invite by email; the link contains an invite code that unlocks the family AES key on the invitee's device after signup
•Device-key wrapping for durable per-member storage; PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (100k iterations) for invite-code derivation
•All members can contribute pins (read-modify-write merge preserves everyone's contributions)
•Family-shared pins display "Shared by [name]" on map and in the Pins list
•Member can save a copy of any shared pin to their private store for personal customization
•6-month resub grace window: cancelled subscriptions keep the encrypted blob inactive (still un-readable by us) so resubscribing restores access — auto-purges after the window
•User-requested deletion is immediate (DELETE /family/group hard-deletes everything)
Pins (unified)
•Markers, Favorites, and Places merged into a single Pins concept — one bottom-nav entry, one searchable list
•Filter chips: All / Favorites / Temporary / Shared with family
•Sort: A-Z, distance from GPS, newest added (no last-viewed metadata — by privacy design)
•Temporary pins (expires in 1h / 6h / 24h / 1 week) — auto-disappear from map and list at expiry. Replaces the legacy "Markers" auto-expiry feature.
•is_favorite is now a boolean any pin can carry (orthogonal to category)
•Legacy /markers, /favorites, /my-places URLs redirect to /pins with appropriate filter preset
•On first launch after upgrade, legacy disaster_markers and disaster_favorites localStorage data is migrated into the unified UserPin store (Capacitor Filesystem on native, IndexedDB on web)
•Mock data on Tracks page removed — fresh installs see an honest empty state with a 3-step explainer (record / stop & save / or import GPX)
Authentication & Security
•Device-based authentication — log in once, silent token refresh on every app open
•Offline grace mode — app opens with full local features even without connectivity
•Device management page at Settings → Devices — view and revoke registered devices
•Bot protection on all public forms: honeypot, timing check, rate limiting
•Open redirect vulnerabilities fixed on payment and magic link flows
•HTML injection prevention in all email notifications
Map & UX
•Dynamic map legend — shows only event types currently visible, auto-updates on pan/zoom
•Test alert filtering — county emergency system tests no longer trigger notifications
•Improved alert messages — no more "Affecting Affected Area" from placeholder data
•Durable data storage on Android/iOS — pins, routes, and settings survive WebView updates
•Family-shared pins display a thin purple ring on map markers
•Favorite pins display a small gold star above the marker
•Bottom nav simplified — removed redundant Markers/Favorites/Places, added unified Pins