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Dashboard Updates

A weekly, feature-only record of new HazardNow tools, dashboard capabilities, data feeds, map layers, and meaningful coverage expansions.

Fixes, maintenance, dependency changes, and other behind-the-scenes work are intentionally left out.

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Recent additions

Published weekly when something new ships.

Week of September 14, 2026

Latest

September 14, 2026–September 20, 2026

6 updates

  1. Expanded satellite imagery with Himawari regional loops, global VIIRS and MODIS views, ocean color, rainfall, air quality, Sentinel scenes and solar imagery, displaying only observations from the last 24 hours.

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  2. Added SC state parks, River Museum and NPS views, DE traffic streams, and RI, MS, WY, NV, WV, NC and MT road cameras. Unified camera filters and improved Caltrans video recovery, unavailable-feed handling, refresh timestamps and preview retries.

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  3. Expanded public safety coverage with Berkeley fire, Seattle police, Miami police and traffic, Sioux Falls, Cumberland County, Omaha, Portland 911, Florida Highway Patrol, Maryland CHART, Visalia police, and Florence County dispatch.

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  4. Added satellite imagery, labeled imagery, terrain and topographic backgrounds to the live hazard map, with a saved background preference.

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  5. Added recognizable hazard symbols to map points and clusters, making earthquakes, heat hotspots, air quality, biological activity, and other conditions easier to distinguish.

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Week of September 7, 2026

September 7, 2026–September 13, 2026

1 update

Week of August 24, 2026

August 24, 2026–August 30, 2026

4 updates

  1. Space Weather now highlights NOAA watches, warnings, charged-particle alerts, and three-day forecast risks before current Kp rises.

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  2. Added more than 12,700 working camera views this week across major federal, state, and city networks, including 656 new wildlife, Catalina, island, beach, landmark, and attraction views, while correcting Florida and Orange County previews.

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  3. Added a weekly Dashboard Updates archive with a footer link and RSS feed for new HazardNow features and meaningful coverage expansions.

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  4. Expanded the live Public Safety map to 54 feeds across 49 labeled jurisdictions, including new coverage in Nebraska, Oregon, Kentucky, Illinois, East Baton Rouge Parish, and King County.

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Week of August 17, 2026

August 17, 2026–August 23, 2026

6 updates

  1. Expanded Civil Stability’s scheduled protest and rally coverage across additional national organizers and public event platforms.

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  2. Expanded Historical Disasters to all 3,142 U.S. county equivalents with a searchable national atlas and source-separated FEMA and NOAA histories.

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  3. Added AlertCheck, a private emergency-alert redundancy self-audit that identifies shared dependencies, coverage gaps, and practical backup options.

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  4. Added eight ready-to-run emergency drills for wildfire, earthquake, severe weather, outages, flooding, communications loss, damage assessment, and winter storms.

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  5. Added Incident Mode, an offline-capable private workspace for outage clocks, food-safety timers, runtime estimates, family check-ins, checklists, reminders, and notes.

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  6. Added My Hazard Passport, a private browser-local planner that checks six disruption scenarios and supports autosave, backup, print, and sanitized sharing.

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