Official Alerts & Weather
Active watches, warnings, and local weather context help show where urgent conditions are developing.
Useful for: Spot fast-changing weather risk near home, travel routes, or key operations.
AlertsWeather
Signals
What HazardNow Tracks
HazardNow combines public hazard, infrastructure, weather, cyber, fuel, supply chain, and stability signals into a single operational dashboard so you can scan changing conditions quickly.
Signal families
Distinct domains under watch
HazardsInfrastructureLogisticsEnvironmentMarketsStabilityPublic health
Immediate hazards
Fast-moving alert, fire, smoke, air, and geophysical signals.
Wildfire, Smoke & Air Quality
Fire activity, smoke, and air quality signals help reveal where fire-related impacts are expanding.
Useful for: See where smoke, fire, and degraded air quality may overlap.
WildfireAir Quality
Earthquakes & Natural Hazards
Recent earthquake and natural hazard indicators provide context for sudden geophysical events.
Useful for: Identify newly active hazard zones and follow up with official local sources.
EarthquakesHazards
Infrastructure stress
Utilities, connectivity, movement, fuel, water, and logistics pressure.
Power Grid & Outages
Grid stress and outage signals highlight pressure on regional electricity systems.
Useful for: Recognize outage and reliability risk that can affect communications, refrigeration, and daily operations.
GridOutages
Internet & Cyber Tempo
Connectivity disruption and cyber tempo signals help surface digital reliability concerns.
Useful for: Watch for communications fragility affecting remote work, payments, and service access.
InternetCyber
Aviation & Transportation
Aviation delay and transportation disruption signals summarize travel-system stress.
Useful for: Spot route and schedule risk before critical trips or logistics windows.
TravelTransportation
Fuel Supply
Fuel indicators track supply pressure and market context that may affect availability.
Useful for: Catch early fuel stress that can amplify outage and transportation disruptions.
FuelEnergy
Water Stress
Drought and streamflow context help show where water constraints may add pressure.
Useful for: See where persistent dry conditions may affect infrastructure, agriculture, or readiness.
DroughtWater
Supply Chain Friction
Freight and logistics indicators help show where movement of goods may be slowing.
Useful for: Recognize compounding logistics stress before it affects inventory or response timing.
LogisticsFreight
Broader context
Space-weather, public-health, financial market, civil stability, and cross-domain stability context.
Space Weather
Geomagnetic and solar activity context adds awareness for technology and infrastructure risk.
Useful for: Watch for non-terrestrial risk signals that may affect communications or grid context.
SolarInfrastructure
Biological / Public Health
CDC wastewater, respiratory illness, and hospital reporting datasets provide public-health surveillance context for COVID-19, flu, RSV, and ARI/ED activity.
Useful for: Track weekly surveillance signals and follow up with CDC, state, and local health departments for health guidance.
CDCPublic Health
Financial Markets
Ticker and market-pulse context summarizes equities, volatility, rates, dollar, oil, and crypto signals separately from macro stress scoring.
Useful for: See whether current market movement is calm, mixed, or risk-off before comparing it with economic stress and global stability.
MarketsTickers
Civil Stability
Public civil unrest, protest, disorder, or disruption signals provide broad awareness where media-derived public feeds are available.
Useful for: Treat civil-stability hotspots as verification prompts, not law-enforcement intelligence or safety instructions.
CivilAdvisories
Global Stability
Cross-domain stability signals summarize broader pressure across hazards, infrastructure, and economic context.
Useful for: Spot multi-sector stress patterns that may influence local readiness decisions.
GlobalCross-domain
Dashboard card reference
What each major card shows
This table connects live dashboard cards to their plain-English explainers and source-family notes. It is intentionally concise: open the Learn page for metric definitions, cadence caveats, limitations, and official-source verification reminders.
| Signal/card | What it shows | Why it matters | Primary source family | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weather alerts | Active NWS watches, warnings, advisories, local conditions, and alert severity context. | Weather often drives power, travel, wildfire, flooding, and communications impacts. | NOAA/NWS | |
| Wildfire hotspots | Recent satellite fire detections and fire-context freshness labels. | Fire activity and smoke can affect air quality, travel, utilities, and evacuation awareness. | NASA FIRMS / NIFC / AirNow | |
| AQI elevated sites | Air-quality monitoring sites above the dashboard threshold and worst-observed AQI context. | Smoke and pollution can affect health-sensitive plans even far from a fire perimeter. | AirNow / EPA | |
| Power grid | Grid stress, outage context, and related energy-infrastructure signals. | Electricity reliability affects communications, heating/cooling, refrigeration, and operations. | Grid operators / EIA / public utility context | |
| Internet/Cyber | Connectivity, telecom, and public cyber-tempo context. | Digital reliability affects alerts, payments, work, logistics, and emergency coordination. | CISA / FCC / public provider context | |
| Aviation delays | FAA delay status and affected-airport disruption context. | Aviation disruption can signal weather, staffing, infrastructure, or regional travel impacts. | FAA NAS Status | |
| Fuel supply | Fuel and energy-market context, including availability and price-pressure indicators. | Fuel stress can amplify evacuation, logistics, commuting, and generator-readiness concerns. | EIA / market data | |
| Water stress | Drought, streamflow, and related water-constraint context. | Water constraints can affect agriculture, fire behavior, household readiness, and utilities. | U.S. Drought Monitor / USGS | |
| Supply chain | Freight and logistics friction context from public transportation indicators. | Goods movement affects supplies, fuel, recovery timelines, and business continuity. | BTS / DOT public data | |
| Space weather | Kp, flare-risk, and NOAA SWPC-derived solar/geomagnetic context. | Space weather can matter for radio, GPS, aviation, satellites, and grid operators. | NOAA SWPC | |
| Radiation | Current/non-stale elevated readings, station coverage, units, and source type. | Unusual environmental readings require careful source and official-agency verification. | EPA RadNet / supplemental monitors | |
| Biological | CDC-style public-health surveillance context such as wastewater and respiratory activity. | Lagged surveillance can inform preparedness routines but is not medical advice. | CDC public datasets | |
| Economic stress | Broader macro, credit, inflation, labor, fuel, and energy stress scoring. | Broad stress can affect resilience, costs, supply chains, and planning assumptions. | FRED / EIA / market data | |
| Financial Markets | Current market-pulse context for equities, volatility, rates, dollar, oil, Bitcoin, direction, partial states, and source age. | Markets can move faster than macro datasets and may influence global-stability context, but this is not financial advice. | Twelve Data / FRED / Stooq / FMP / Yahoo fallback | |
| Global stability | Cross-domain synthesis from hazards, energy, cyber, transportation, markets, and cited public context. | Multiple domains moving together can be more relevant than one isolated signal. | Public-source synthesis | |
| Civil Stability | Media-derived public civil unrest, protest, disorder, disruption hotspots/events, coverage, and confidence where available. | Civil-stability signals are broad awareness prompts that require local verification before decisions. | GDELT DOC 2.0 / GDELT Events 2.0 public signal summary | |
| FEMA/IPAWS | Public official emergency-alert context where available. | Official alert text and sender instructions take priority over any dashboard summary. | FEMA IPAWS | |
| DHS NTAS | National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin status and public security bulletin context. | NTAS is official DHS public information; HazardNow only summarizes availability/status context. | DHS NTAS | |
| Local Weather | Local temperature, wind, humidity, visibility, forecast and local time context for the selected region. | Local conditions help interpret weather, wildfire, aviation, AQI, power, and travel signals. | NOAA/NWS observations and forecast context | |
| GOES Satellite Loop / map visual tools | Live multi-hazard map layers, optional radar/severe overlays, and GOES satellite-loop visual context where available. | Map layers help orient the signal scan but are visual context, not official instructions or complete coverage. | NOAA/NWS/GOES and public map-layer providers |
Operational workflow
From signal to action
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Step 1
Scan the signal
Start with the category cards to understand what HazardNow monitors.
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Step 2
Open the dashboard
Use the live dashboard to see current status, map layers, tickers, and operational feed.
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Step 3
Verify locally
Use HazardNow as a fast awareness layer, then confirm decisions with official sources.
Dashboard directory
Explore focused signal dashboards
These evergreen guides explain how specific public-signal categories fit into the live HazardNow dashboard.
HazardNow Learn
Related explainers
ExplainerWeather alertsDecode weather watches, warnings, advisories, and statements before you check the live alert map.ExplainerAir Quality IndexAir Quality Index (AQI) explained with category meaning, smoke context, and how to verify local air-quality conditions.ExplainerGrid stressRecognize operator notices, peak demand, reserves, outages, and weather conditions that can strain the grid.ExplainerInternet outageSeparate provider, cloud, regional, and last-mile internet problems during disruptions.ExplainerU.S. Drought MonitorUse the U.S. Drought Monitor to compare long-running dry conditions across regions.ExplainerGeomagnetic stormUnderstand NOAA geomagnetic storm scales and possible effects on GPS, radio, satellites, and grid operators.
Regional coverage
State hazard dashboards
These state-level landing pages add regional hazard context while keeping the live dashboard as the current source for public situational awareness signals.
California hazard dashboardTexas hazard dashboardFlorida hazard dashboardArizona hazard dashboardColorado hazard dashboardOregon hazard dashboardWashington hazard dashboardNew York hazard dashboardPennsylvania hazard dashboardNorth Carolina hazard dashboardGeorgia hazard dashboardOhio hazard dashboard