Hey Product Hunt! I made this app after the California wildfires this year, when I found myself constantly checking for fires in the path of a trip I had planned to take. I would receive texts for my county but I had no way of getting alerted about fires that would get reported elsewhere in the state or country. Each county has its own text messaging system that you need to sign up for, which is obviously a lot of friction when you just want to know when and where fires are popping up.
Rather than signing up for every county's alerts, I found a US government service that collected all fires reported in the country and wrote an app to poll the service and text users who had signed up for messages in a certain ZIP if that ZIP was within a certain range (currently 25 miles) of any fires. I know it's a little late for this year's fire season, but please give it a shot! I'd love to hear any feedback you have and improve it for next year :)
Wildfire Alerts