Hipponics Firewatch : Fire Map
Live bushfire map and alerts
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
DISCLAIMER: Hipponics Firewatch is an independent community tool. It is NOT a government app and is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government agency or emergency service. Always follow the official warnings and instructions of your state fire authority. Data may be delayed or incomplete.
Know what is burning near the people and places you care about: every bushfire in Australia on one live map, with all eight state and territory fire services' warnings side by side. No switching apps near a border or on a road trip.
KEY FEATURES
• Every current bushfire, its warning level and the fire service's own warning text
• Watch zones: a notification when a fire or hotspot appears near your home, family or holiday spot (free account)
• Satellite hotspots (Himawari, MODIS, VIIRS), often the first sign of a new fire
• Fire danger ratings, wind, smoke, air quality, lightning risk and thunderstorm warnings
• Fire boundaries, modelled spread and ember-attack zones (indicative only)
• Road closures and power outages near a fire
• Firefighting aircraft and 3D terrain
• Share a fire, or your position, in a tap
Updated about every 10 minutes. Free, with no ads.
SUPPORTER (optional)
A yearly subscription that keeps Firewatch running and unlocks HD and satellite imagery, aircraft tracking, 3D fire tools and up to 10 watch zones. 3-day free trial for new subscribers. Charged to your Apple Account; renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > your name > Subscriptions.
DATA SOURCES (complete list)
Fire incidents and warnings: NSW Rural Fire Service (rfs.nsw.gov.au); Emergency Management Victoria, VicEmergency (emergency.vic.gov.au); Queensland Fire Department (fire.qld.gov.au); SA Country Fire Service / SA Emergency Services (cfs.sa.gov.au, data.eso.sa.gov.au); WA Dept of Fire and Emergency Services, Emergency WA (emergency.wa.gov.au); Tasmania Fire Service via TasALERT (alert.tas.gov.au); NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services, Bushfires NT (pfes.nt.gov.au); ACT Emergency Services Agency (esa.act.gov.au)
Satellite hotspots and imagery: NASA FIRMS (firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov); NASA GIBS / Worldview (gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov); Geoscience Australia DEA Hotspots (hotspots.dea.ga.gov.au)
Weather, fire danger, air quality, storms: Bureau of Meteorology, thunderstorm warnings and fire danger districts (bom.gov.au); Open-Meteo, weather and air quality (open-meteo.com)
Road closures: Transport for NSW Live Traffic (transport.nsw.gov.au); Dept of Transport and Planning Victoria (opendata.transport.vic.gov.au); QLDTraffic (qldtraffic.qld.gov.au); SA Dept for Infrastructure and Transport (maps.sa.gov.au); Emergency WA (emergency.wa.gov.au); Tasmania LIST, Dept of Natural Resources and Environment (thelist.tas.gov.au); ACT Emergency Services Agency (data.esa.act.gov.au); NT Road Report (roadreport.nt.gov.au)
Power outages (network operators): Ausgrid; Endeavour Energy; Essential Energy; Energex and Ergon Energy; AusNet; Jemena; CitiPower and Powercor; United Energy; SA Power Networks; Western Power; Horizon Power; TasNetworks; Evoenergy
Aircraft (community ADS-B networks): airplanes.live, adsb.lol, adsb.one; photos: planespotters.net
Maps, terrain and imagery: OpenStreetMap; OpenTopoMap; Esri World Imagery; Cesium ion; NSW Spatial Services; Vicmap, Dept of Transport and Planning Victoria; Queensland Government imagery; ACTmapi; place search: Nominatim (OpenStreetMap)
News and community: Bing News search (bing.com); links to official agency social media and Broadcastify scanner feeds
Fire-spread and ember-attack estimates are modelled by Hipponics and are indicative only, not official predictions. Your local fire authority's app and website remain the authoritative source for warnings.
Terms of Use: https://hipponics.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://hipponics.com/privacy
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Firewatch now keeps working when you lose signal.
NEW
• Offline maps (Supporters): save the street map of an area to your iPhone, so roads, tracks and towns still show with no signal. It tells you the size before saving – a 50 km area is usually a few MB.
• With no signal, the map shows the last fires your phone loaded, for up to two days, instead of an empty map. A banner always says how old they are: red when you're offline, amber when you have a bar of signal but new fires aren't getting through.
• A fire whose warning level has just gone up pulses on the map for 15 minutes. If it's in view or in one of your watch zones and rises to Watch and Act or Emergency, your iPhone buzzes once.
• "Watch this area" in every fire's details opens a 25 km watch zone around that fire – one tap and Save.
• After you sign in without a watch zone, Firewatch offers to set one up around you. Without a zone you get no alerts.
IMPROVED
• Wind is on from the start, so you can see which way the air is moving around every fire.
• Map areas and road closures you've already viewed stay on your phone for when signal drops.
• Swipe a notification to delete it; notifications are more compact on phones.
• 3D runs cooler on phones, and fast devices step up to sharper visuals with hill shading.
• Fire spread zones hold more of a fire's real growth (Supporters).
FIXED
• Long-running fires no longer disappear from the map after a week while their fire service still lists them.
• Queensland fires show their own times, and a fire with a warning is one marker, not two.
• A more serious fire is always drawn on top of a less serious one.
• In 3D, wind direction now matches the 2D map, and hotspots are visible on phones when zoomed out.
• Road closures no longer vanish after a single failed refresh.
The developer, Danny Jenkins, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Danny Jenkins
- Size
- 2.9 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Supporter $12.00
- Copyright
- © Hipponics
