SpikeCamp

Live US wildfire data, updated every few minutes

Every fire on the map. Every crew in reach.

A free live wildfire map for everyone, and an offline-first crew platform for the people on the line: tactical maps, crew tracking, emergency alerts, briefings, and messaging that keep working when the signal doesn’t.

Open the live fire map Set up crew tracking

The map is free, no account needed.

Supplemental, not an evacuation order. Verify with local officials.

SpikeCamp national map with current US wildfires shown as flame markers — Live national map, and a tactical incident map on a phone (Sinlahekin sample pack).

SpikeCamp tactical map on a phone: fire perimeter, roads, drop points, and crew positions — Live national map, and a tactical incident map on a phone (Sinlahekin sample pack).

Built on public data

NIFC WFIGS incidents and perimeters
WildCAD-E dispatch new starts
NASA FIRMS satellite hotspots
EPA AirNow air quality
NOAA HMS smoke
National Weather Service Red Flag warnings
FAA fire TFRs
ADS-B aircraft
County evacuation zones
FEMA open shelters
USGS terrain
OpenStreetMap roads

How it connects

From the line to incident command, over whatever link exists.

Phones report over cell or a crew’s Starlink hotspot. Meshtastic tags pass positions radio to radio to a gateway. It all lands on one command board and in your TAK or ArcGIS picture.

CellWi-Fi hotspotSatelliteLoRa meshBluetoothInternet

For everyone

Safety information stays free. Always.

Live national mapEvery reported US fire, sized by acres and colored by containment, with perimeters, hotspots, smoke, and air quality. A page for every fireAcres, containment, personnel, and when the record last changed. Share a link with anyone. Evacuation zones and sheltersPublic county zones and open FEMA shelters on the same map, labeled by level. Alerts for your placeWatch a home, a cabin, or a county and get a push when a fire or new start comes near.

For crews and incident command

Built for the people on the line.

Designed around what goes wrong on a division: no signal, dead phones, heavy files, and a command post that can’t see where everyone is.

Tactical maps that work offline

Perimeter, roads, drop points, water, and terrain, packed small enough to save to a phone before you lose signal. Your GPS dot keeps drawing with no service.

Incident packs, not whole-state downloads
Weather, aircraft, and TFR layers when a link is up
Land ownership colors on Crew

Tactical map of the Sinlahekin fire with perimeter, roads, drop points, and wind — Sinlahekin sample incident pack

Crew tracking that survives no signal

Crew members opt in for an assignment with a join code from command. Positions are recorded on command’s cadence and wait on the phone when there is no link, then send the moment one returns. Command sees who has dropped off and where they were last.

Rest, stop, and demob from the phone or from command
Accuracy, battery, and link reported with every fix
Data stays with the incident and is deleted on its schedule

CellularPhone to command over the networkLive

Starlink hotspotPhones on a crew’s satellite Wi-FiLive

Store and forwardNo link at all: fixes wait on the phoneLive

Meshtastic LoRa meshA tag beside the phone relays over LoRa to a gateway with an uplinkLive

Emergency alerts, briefings, and messaging

Hold the emergency button and command gets a banner with your position and the link it came over. Command pushes the daily briefing and sees who has it and who acknowledged it. Crews, individuals, and command message each other, and messages wait for signal instead of failing.

Acknowledgement tracking with one-tap reminders
Crew channels, a private line to command, direct messages
Messages are kept with the incident record and are not private

A command board that plugs into your COP

Live positions, trails, accuracy rings, and dropped-off status on topo or imagery, filtered by crew or resource type. Share a revocable read-only feed with the tools you already run, and replay any window from the last 14 days for an after-action review.

Cursor-on-Target for TAK and WFTAK
KML for ATAK and Google Earth, GeoJSON for ArcGIS
Audit log of joins, alerts, acknowledgements, and feeds

Run it on your next assignment

Open an incident, read out the join code at briefing, and watch the board fill in. Agencies interested in a pilot can write to us.

Open an incident board How crew tracking works

Why it exists

Built on the line, not in a boardroom.

SpikeCamp is built in Oroville, Washington, by an active wildland firefighter and former US Army field artillery officer, after working the 2026 Sinlahekin Fire. Every feature starts from something that went wrong out there: lost crews, dead phones, heavy map files, and long stretches with no signal.

Pricing

Pro is $5/month or $48/year (save 20%). Crew is $99/seat/year. Safety alerts stay free.

Safety info is always free. Billed monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime.

Free

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Safety info is always free.

National fire map
A page for each fire
Evacuation zones stay free
Share any fire page
Watch one place free
Fire aircraft near active fires

Most popular

Pro

$5/mo

or $48/year (save 20%)

Watch all your places
Wind and weather layers
Pins with photos
One link for family
Extra offline map areas (coming soon)
Live tactical field maps
GPS on the tactical map
Meshtastic position relay
Heart-rate strap and manual log

Unlock Pro $5/mo

Crew

$99/seat/year

Everything in Pro, per seat.

Everything in Pro, plus:

Radio scanner audio (coming soon)
Land ownership colors
Fuel layers on the map (coming soon)
A fire spread model (coming soon)
Crew export files (coming soon)

Crew tracking, emergency alerts, briefings, messaging, and TAK, KML, and GeoJSON feeds are open to every signed-in crew during the pilot. Meshtastic relay is live. How crew tracking works.