BurnDates
BurnDates tracks which US counties are under a burn ban, reading the state forestry lists so anyone about to light a fire doesn't have to. Rather than serve a stale answer, it expires any county it hasn't reconfirmed within two days and says so.
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Charcoal ground, cream condensed capitals, and the whole answer in the first screen: a one-line question, then a grid of state cards each carrying a small analog gauge whose needle sweeps green to red. The gauge does the scanning and the sentence beneath it does the explaining — “214 of 254 counties under a burn ban” — with a muted line recording when the check happened. Everything below runs in a single narrow measure of plain prose, amber links the only accent, so a page carrying real legal caveats reads like someone talking rather than an emergency dashboard.
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