Interesting. I think there are other services doing the same thing including one linked by another commenter.

When checking the Evidence tab for data that supports the conclusion that there could be a fire in progress I found that it could be improved by excluding the evidence posts for all the mapped fire locations except the one that the user clicked. Presently, if you click that Evidence tab you get a roll of links to posts or mentions or whatever for every fire. I believe that a user would most appreciate data that pertains to the fire they are trying to monitor.

I am not a fan of grey text. It does not improve site navigability or usability and it can get lost in screen glare unless bold grey text is used. It would still be grey text though and I am still not a fan. Perhaps shades of blue or yellow to contrast with the black bar.

Example in case you are thinking of modifying the page - Your top frame has the ap name "SIGNET" in white capitals. Right next to that is an orange dot, probably to signify that something is happening or that the site is "LIVE". Notice that "LIVE" is not only in grey text, beside an orange dot which will be the eyeball magnet, but it is also a smaller font than the ap name "SIGNET".

From my perspective, the site would be improved by changing grey text to a more contrasting color and asking the question - "What information should be the most important topic on this page?" In that way you can optimize it for your users.

Before posting this comment I went back to check that the points I hoped to make were valid points. It turns out that not all "Evidence" links have evidence for every fire on the map. I randomly chose the Custer County Incident when I checked that and found all sorts of stuff pertaining to Texas fires. Perhaps this is not a huge problem for you to solve. I checked the Rapides Parish Incident in Lousyana and it only has data about that event.

Maybe some cleaning of links is in order.

Fair points, I leaned a little hard into the ops aesthetic. Grey text might not be doing anyone any favors.

On the Evidence tab, I agree that it should be incident-specific to be useful on its own. Right now the model scopes what evidence gets attached, so probably a case where that should be deterministic instead.

Good catch. Thanks.