- Fixed a crash on some older versions of iOS
- Fixed a potential crash in the image viewer
- Now includes Canadian fires
- Minor UI polish
- Improved haptics
- When aircraft notifications come in, you can now tap the notification to show details for the aircraft
- Improved the display of Red Flags
- Some improvements to aircraft UI
- Added many aircraft to the database
Version 5 is a major update.
• Added satellite images feature. See very recent satellite photos of fire areas.
• Added aircraft feature. See the position and status of firefighting aircraft.
• New alerts system lets you define multiple areas to monitor by drawing directly on the map.
• Many pieces of the app have been rewritten.
- Added a Fire Danger view
- Fixed a potential crash on the Alerts screen
- Added a fallback server to improve reliability
- Added Water Vapor, Soil Moisture and Vegetation (satellite data rules)
- New style for Air Quality overlay (bring on the hexagons)
- Reorganized the user interface (everything at your thumb-tip)
- Cleanup and optimizations (pruning, streamlining and tidying)
- Removed Facebook integration (less is more)
- Fixed an intermittent long pause on launch
- Added air quality (AQI)
- Fixed a bug where the wind overlay could stop updating
- Improved the drawing of fire perimeters (holes inside the fire are now drawn correctly)
- Added a sensitivity filter for satellite-detected fires
- Visual UI refinements
- Added subtle animations to wind overlay
- Now displaying acres for more fires
- Improved resiliency against improperly-formatted fire data from upstream sources
- Major enhancements to the wind overlay
- Added a "Date" sort option for the fires list
- Fixed a potential crash on launch which was being caused by certain types of red flag warnings
- Fixed an issue where fire overlays could disappear after reloading
- Added wind data
- Major updates to UI. Now faster, and better able to handle large numbers of fires.
- Simplified and improved the legend
- Simplified and improved the drawing of satellite-detected fires
- Added a Share button
- Fixed an issue where the view options could be obscured by the keyboard
- Made the legend smaller on iPad
- Defaults to a more zoomed-out map view
- You can now sign up for notifications on individual fires
- Added a list view
- Improved rendering of fire perimeters
- New map filters
- Added search
- Visual refinements
- Added city and state to fire details page
- Improved handling of fire / red flag alerts. Now centers on a fire when the notification is tapped
- Map view centers on alerts radius (if specified) when app is opened
- Fixed typo on alerts page
- Added NASA and NOAA satellite data
- Improved the display of fire details
Firespot 2 is a major update. In addition to satellite-detected fires, we now show current wildfire status and perimeters for the U.S.
• New alerts system (with paid subscription) gives you up-to-the-minute device notifications for local fire status
• Now showing US fire data from the NWCG and NIFC
• Now showing Red Flag warnings from the NWS
• Satellite-detected fires and human-reported fires are shown differently on the map
• Fire detail view provides up-to-date information on fires including size, containment, and fuel types
Firespot 2 is a major update. In addition to satellite-detected fires, we now show current wildfire status and perimeters for the U.S.
• New alerts system (with paid subscription) gives you up-to-the-minute device notifications for local fire status
• Now showing US fire data from the NWCG and NIFC
• Now showing Red Flag warnings from the NWS
• Satellite-detected fires and human-reported fires are shown differently on the map
• Fire detail view provides up-to-date information on fires including size, containment, and fuel types