- Worldwide firefighting aircraft coverage - Animated aircraft positions - Added a reload progress view

Introducing Firespot 6 The biggest Firespot update ever Firespot 6 is a major revision to Firespot, with over 50% new code and deep optimizations and enhancements throughout the app. NEW FEATURES: - On-map overlays of infrared and true color satellite images of wildfires - Upgraded wind and satellite data sources - New UI built on the latest iOS methodologies - Vastly expanded satellite fire hotspot detection database - Improved map polygon rendering - Faster HTTP/2-based server API The main feature update in Firespot 6 is the satellite imagery. Firespot's servers continuously pull data from public-domain satellites (ESA's Sentinel-2 series) to build true color and infrared images of fires. The app lets you quickly scan through dates and view a fire's progression as seen from low Earth orbit. Firespot's unique infrared composite allows you to see fire through smoke and clouds, like X-ray vision. Firespot is still as lean as ever, and now even faster. Our app takes up only 20MB on your phone- a rare thing in 2026. You'll wonder how we managed to stuff all those features in there. Firespot 6 is optimized to the hilt, with response times reduced by 20-80% throughout the app. The satellite fire hotspot database is now optimized with delta updates, reducing data transfer by 90-95% during satellite hotspot updates. Wind data is now backed by a raster data source for faster loading and performance.

- 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