An alert fires only when 3 or more independent core lanes are amber or red within 48 hours, or 2 are red. Lanes that read the same evidence, such as news volume, count once. Weekly and lagged feeds count within their own publication window. One reading never alerts. Stand-ins never count. The same cluster stays quiet for 36 hours unless it gets worse.
Wasatch Front sector
Wasatch Front
Home: Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties and the rest of Utah.
Orange counties have power outages. Dots are news and alerts with a place attached. The rings show distance from home.
Hotspots group news and source reports by place, sized by volume, theme and recency. They show where activity is, not an alert. 53 located · 71 without a place · sweep 2026-10-29 15:00 MDT
Incidents
Incidents
When several different sources point at the same place at the same time, the board groups them into one incident.
Watches gold, oil, the dollar, the stock market's fear gauge (VIX), credit stress and Bitcoin.
Big money reacts to trouble within minutes, often before the news does. A sudden rush into gold or a jump in the fear gauge is an early hint that something serious is happening.
Sources: Yahoo Finance, FRED (St. Louis Fed), New York Fed, Coinbase.
Dollars banks borrowed at the Fed's standing repo operations each day. Near zero in calm markets. Heavy use means overnight funding is short, as in September 2019. Fixed thresholds: amber at $10 billion, red at $50 billion.
Banks took $0.03 billion at the Fed's repo operations on 2026-10-29.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 10, red at 50. Status green.
Bitcoin daily closes. It trades on weekends and holidays when other markets are shut, so a weekend shock shows here first. Scored on the daily change only.
Bitcoin closed at $81,249, +0.6% on the day.
Level z n/a over 90 prior points. 1-step rate z +0.14. Status green from the rate check (amber 2, red 3, direction lower).
Stablecoin peg (USDT)0.12% off $1GreenLVL —RATE ——
How far Tether (USDT) trades from one dollar. A break in the largest stablecoin is a fast sign of crypto and funding stress. Fixed thresholds: amber at 0.5%, red at 2%.
USDT trades at $0.9988, 0.12% off its dollar peg.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 0.5, red at 2. Status green.
Watches US crude oil stockpiles and solar storms that can disturb the power grid and GPS.
Fuel and electricity sit under everything else. Falling stockpiles mean higher prices and possible shortages; a strong solar storm can knock out power and satellites.
Sources: US Energy Information Administration, NOAA Space Weather.
Destinations at Level 4. The first readings are a baseline.
23 destinations are Level 4. This count is a baseline until local history exists. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
BelarusDeparture wordingDo not travel to Belarus for any reason due to unrest and other risks . The U.S. government has extremely limited ability to help detained U.S. citizens. You may not receive consular access. You could also face arbitrary detention with no contact with the outside world. Ordered d
Green
Health
Health
Watches flu, COVID and RSV emergency-room visits (US and Utah) and FDA drug shortages.
A fast rise in ER visits is the first sign of a bad outbreak, before hospitals fill. Drug shortages tell you to refill prescriptions early.
FDA current drug shortages1,142shortagesCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Current openFDA drug shortages. Not medical advice. Scored only after a stored baseline exists.
1142 current shortages in openFDA. Not medical advice. The count is a baseline until local history exists. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Salt Lake City departures1climbing outCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Aircraft climbing out of KSLC (Salt Lake City) at the moment of the sweep. Counts airborne aircraft within 8 nm of the field, under 5,000 ft above it, and climbing at 400 ft/min or more. All aircraft, not only business jets. Each sweep is compared with the same time of day on earlier days. Public ADS-B, no key.
1 aircraft climbing out of KSLC right now. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Aircraft climbing out of Teterboro, Van Nuys, Palm Beach, and White Plains, the main US business-jet fields, summed. Counts airborne aircraft within 8 nm of the field, under 5,000 ft above it, and climbing at 400 ft/min or more. All aircraft, not only business jets. Each sweep is compared with the same time of day on earlier days. Public ADS-B, no key.
5 aircraft climbing out of KTEB, KVNY, KPBI, KHPN right now. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Aircraft climbing out of London Luton, Paris Le Bourget, and Dubai, summed. Moscow and Tel Aviv were dropped: public ADS-B barely covers them. Counts airborne aircraft within 8 nm of the field, under 5,000 ft above it, and climbing at 400 ft/min or more. All aircraft, not only business jets. Each sweep is compared with the same time of day on earlier days. Public ADS-B, no key.
Held from the 2026-10-29 14:30 MDT sweep; this sweep did not refresh it. 0 aircraft climbing out of EGGW, LFPB, OMDB right now. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Latest fetch: OMDB: HTTP 429 for https://api.adsb.lol/v2/point/25.2532/55.3657/8: rate limit exceede
1 feed failing on the last sweep.Departure-order coverage—FaultLVL —RATE ——
GDELT daily article counts for ordered or authorized departure. GDELT rate-limits hard, so its queries take turns and the last good day is held for up to 30 hours.
Unique Bluesky posts in the last 6 hours matching evacuation, shelter in place, state of emergency, martial law, missile strike, airspace closed, power outage, or gas shortage. Attention, not events: it counts once with the news lanes.
178 unique Bluesky posts in the last 6 hours across 8 searches. Each search returns at most 100 posts, so a very busy term saturates. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Unique Bluesky posts in the last 12 hours that pair Utah or Salt Lake with emergency, evacuation, earthquake, wildfire, outage, or lockdown.
9 unique Bluesky posts in the last 12 hours across 8 searches. Each search returns at most 100 posts, so a very busy term saturates. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Posts tagged #breakingnews or #breaking on mastodon.social in the last 2 hours. A rough pulse of how much is breaking at once.
12 #breakingnews or #breaking posts on mastodon.social in the last 2 hours. Each tag returns at most 40 posts. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
1 feed failing on the last sweep.Utah crisis-news velocity1articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Crisis-keyword headlines from KSL, the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, KUTV, FOX 13 via Google News, and a Utah Google News query, counted over 12 hours. A single headline does not alert.
1 crisis-keyword headlines in the last 12 hours, out of 324 deduped items from 6 feeds. FOX 13's own RSS returned 404, so those headlines come from Google News. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Distinct Severe and Extreme NWS alerts for Utah, per America/Denver day, versus the prior month. This is the only NWS series, so a Utah storm is not also scored on the Energy lane.
Scored day 2026-10-28 (0 distinct Severe/Extreme alerts). Active list: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?area=UT. Days before 18:00 America/Denver score yesterday.
Level z -0.40 over 30 prior points. 1-step rate z n/a. Status green from the level check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
Hydrologic OutlookUnknownHydrologic Outlook issued October 29 at 10:53AM MDT by NWS Grand Junction CO
Rocky Mountain Power outages56customers outCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Unplanned customers out on the public Rocky Mountain Power Utah outage list. Scored after a stored baseline exists.
18 unplanned outages, 56 customers out. Map timestamp: Thursday, October 29 02:45 PM, 2026. The first readings are a baseline. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
GDELT daily article volume mentioning Utah, from the raw timeline rather than a capped article page. Queries take turns, and the last good day is held for up to 30 hours.
1 feed failing on the last sweep.Conflict96articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: (war OR airstrike OR invasion OR missile) when:1d
96 items in the last 12 hours for Conflict. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Evacuations and drawdowns63articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: ("ordered departure" OR evacuation OR "embassy evacuation") when:1d
63 items in the last 12 hours for Evacuations and drawdowns. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Supply chain and shipping72articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: ("supply chain" OR "port congestion" OR "shipping delay" OR "empty shelves") when:1d
72 items in the last 12 hours for Supply chain and shipping. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Energy and grid65articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: ("power outage" OR blackout OR "power grid") when:1d
65 items in the last 12 hours for Energy and grid. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: ("bank run" OR "financial crisis" OR "market crash") when:1d
18 items in the last 12 hours for Financial stress. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: (outbreak OR epidemic OR pandemic) when:1d
77 items in the last 12 hours for Outbreaks. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: ("plane crash" OR "airspace closed" OR "airport closed") when:1d
7 items in the last 12 hours for Aviation. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
Google News items published in the last 12 hours for this theme, plus BBC World and Al Jazeera headlines that match it. Scored against the stored baseline, not a single headline. Query: (riot OR "martial law" OR "civil unrest") when:1d
49 items in the last 12 hours for Civil unrest. Google News feeds are capped, so this is the recent-item count, not a claim of total world volume. Reuters and AP feeds were not available without a key or a block. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.
GDELT daily volume for a combined crisis query. Queries take turns, and the last good day is held for up to 30 hours. The RSS themes stand on their own if GDELT is down.
Gas price, Rocky Mountain region4.46USD/galGreenLVL —RATE -0.56
EIA weekly retail regular gasoline for the Rocky Mountain region (PADD 4, which includes Utah). EIA has no Utah-only weekly series. Scored on weekly moves, since the price trends. The rows show the US average and regional diesel.
Rocky Mountain regular gasoline $4.458 a gallon for the week of 2026-10-26, down 1.0¢ on the week. Scored on its weekly moves, not its level.
Level z n/a over 16 prior points. 1-step rate z -0.57. Status green from the rate check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
Fuel outages and gas lines13articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items in the last 12 hours about gas shortages, stations out of fuel, gas lines, or fuel rationing. There is no public station-level fuel availability feed.
13 items in the last 12 hours. Google News caps the feed, so this is recent velocity, not total volume. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Baby formula shortages4articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items in the last 12 hours about baby or infant formula shortages, recalls, or empty shelves.
4 items in the last 12 hours. Google News caps the feed, so this is recent velocity, not total volume. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Empty shelves and panic buying11articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items in the last 12 hours about empty or bare shelves, panic buying, purchase limits, or stockpiling. A stand-in for out-of-stock data, which has no public feed.
11 items in the last 12 hours. Google News caps the feed, so this is recent velocity, not total volume. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Countries with outages (IODA)6countries / 24hGreenLVL -0.52RATE -0.26
Countries with an IODA country-level outage event in each 24-hour window over 30 days. IODA combines BGP, active probing, and darknet telescope signals. No key.
6 countries with an IODA outage event in the last 24 hours. Events come from BGP, active probing, and telescope signals.
Level z -0.52 over 21 prior points. 1-step rate z -0.25. Status green from the level and rate check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
OPM operating status00 open / 1 closedGreenLVL —RATE ——
Federal operating status for the Washington, DC area. Reads 1 when OPM is not open or mentions a lapse in appropriations, shutdown, or furlough. A snow day also reads 1, so it needs another lane to alert. The rows also show the days left before current appropriations expire (FUNDING_DEADLINE, default 2026-12-11).
OPM says: Open. Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are Open. Weather closures also read as closed.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 1, red at 2. Status green.
Funding deadline2026-12-11, 44 days leftbuilt-in default, set FUNDING_DEADLINE when Congress moves it
Shutdown odds (Kalshi)—No signalLVL —RATE ——
Highest implied yes price among open Kalshi government-shutdown markets (public market data, no key). Series KXGOVSHUT unless KALSHI_SHUTDOWN_SERIES is set. A market price, not a forecast from this desk.
No open, priced Kalshi markets in series KXGOVSHUT. Set KALSHI_SHUTDOWN_SERIES if Kalshi renamed it.
Google News items in the last 12 hours mentioning a government shutdown, lapse in appropriations, continuing resolution, or funding deadline.
6 items in the last 12 hours. Google News caps the feed, so this is recent velocity, not total volume. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
GDACS orange and red alerts1alerts / 24hGreenLVL -1.79RATE -5.42
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System events at orange or red for earthquakes, cyclones, floods, volcanoes, droughts, and wildfires, per 24-hour window over 30 days.
1 orange or red GDACS alert active, 1 red.
Level z -1.79 over 21 prior points. 1-step rate z -5.42. Status green from the level and rate check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
US Extreme weather alerts0alertsCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Distinct active NWS alerts at Extreme severity nationwide (tornado emergencies, extreme wind, and similar). Utah Severe and Extreme alerts are scored separately on the Utah lane.
0 active Extreme NWS alerts nationwide. Scored after a stored baseline exists. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Active tropical storms1stormsCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Active storms in the NHC CurrentStorms feed (Atlantic and East/Central Pacific).
1 active storm tracked by NHC (Atlantic and East/Central Pacific), 0 hurricanes. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Lockdown and curfew news74articles / 12hCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Google News items in the last 12 hours mentioning a lockdown, quarantine, curfew, stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order, or state of emergency.
74 items in the last 12 hours. Google News caps the feed, so this is recent velocity, not total volume. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
FAA ground stops and closures2programsCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Active FAA ground stops, ground delay programs, and airport closures across the US. Routine closures to transient general aviation are left out. Salt Lake City is called out in the rows.
1 ground stop and 1 other ground delay or closure programs active in the US. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Active FAA temporary flight restrictions of type SECURITY or SPECIAL. VIP, sports, air show, and fire restrictions are counted in the rows but not scored. Utah ones are called out.
49 security flight restrictions active, of 79 TFRs in all. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Aircraft broadcasting 7500 (hijack) or 7700 (general emergency) worldwide right now, from a volunteer ADS-B network. Any 7500 is named in the rows. Fixed thresholds: amber at 3, red at 6.
0 aircraft squawking 7500 (hijack) and 0 squawking 7700 (emergency) right now.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 3, red at 6. Status green.
Military aircraft airborne383aircraftCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Military aircraft visible on ADS-B worldwide, with tankers and the E-4B and E-6B command aircraft named in the rows. Many military flights hide, so read this as posture, not a full count.
383 military aircraft visible on ADS-B, 11 tankers, 1 E-4B, E-6B, or VC-25 type. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Counts toward alertSeismic events at test sites0events / 7dGreenLVL —RATE ——
Shallow (under 15 km) M3+ events within 60 km of Punggye-ri, Lop Nur, Novaya Zemlya, or the Nevada test site, plus anything USGS types as an explosion near them. USGS often labels a test an earthquake at first, so location matters more than type. Fixed thresholds: amber at 1, red at 2.
No shallow M3+ events near Punggye-ri, Lop Nur, Novaya Zemlya, or the Nevada test site in the last 7 days.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 1, red at 2. Status green.
Gamma dose rate, Salt Lake City73nSv/hAmberLVL +2.27RATE +0.50
Hourly gamma dose equivalent rate at the EPA RadNet monitor in Salt Lake City, against its own 2-day baseline. Rain washes radon down and causes small spikes, so it needs another lane to alert. EPA posts with a lag of several hours.
Salt Lake City gamma dose rate 73 nSv/h at 2026-10-29 12:58 MDT.
Level z +2.27 over 48 prior points. 1-step rate z +0.50. Status amber from the level check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
Active non-weather alerts relayed through the national alert system: civil danger, civil emergency, shelter in place, evacuate immediately, law enforcement, local area emergency, hazardous materials, nuclear plant, and radiological hazard. AMBER child abduction alerts are left out.
1 active civil emergency alert nationwide. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Presidential documents per week whose title invokes a national emergency, the Insurrection Act, the National Guard or armed forces, martial law, the Defense Production Act, quarantine, or continuity of government. The Federal Register prints 1 to 3 days after signing.
1 presidential document invoking emergency powers published in the last 7 days, 1 in 30 days.
Level z +0.81 over 16 prior points. 1-step rate z n/a. Status green from the level check (amber 2, red 3, direction higher).
Elevated US volcanoes1at watch or warningCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
US volcanoes at alert level WATCH or WARNING. Most are in Alaska or Hawaii. Yellowstone and the Cascades are called out in the rows whenever they are above normal.
1 US volcano at WATCH or WARNING, 4 above normal in all. Yellowstone is at normal. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 1). No alert from this indicator.
Cloud and CDN outages1providers degradedGreenLVL —RATE ——
Providers reporting a major or critical incident: Cloudflare, GitHub, Zoom, Atlassian, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Twilio, Discord, and Google Cloud. Two or more at once is how a broad internet outage looks. Fixed thresholds: amber at 2, red at 4.
1 provider reporting a major or critical incident, 2 with any incident, of 9 checked.
Fixed thresholds: amber at 2, red at 4. Status green.
Failing with no recent reading to fall back on: Departure-order coverage, GDELT Utah headlines, GDELT crisis volume. Held from an earlier sweep after a failed fetch: Overseas hub departures.
No free source wired yet: Supply chain (Grocery shelf stock, Amazon shipping times); Transit and schools (Transit ridership, School closures); Utah (UDOT incidents); X chatter (Conflict, Evacuation, Supply, Energy, Markets, Outbreak, Aviation, Unrest, Utah keywords).
Calibrating
Pharmacy sales
Stand-in. Shown for context, never counts toward an alert.Antibiotic shortages (proxy)Stand-in21shortagesCalibratingLVL —RATE ——
Current FDA shortages matching common antibiotic names. Retail sales are proprietary. This proxy never alerts on its own.
21 current shortages match the antibiotic name list. Stand-in for pharmacy sales. Need 9 points for a level baseline (have 2). No alert from this indicator.