You can't watch the radar all day for every town your family lives in, but EarthCanary can. Open it and you'll see, right away, who is safe and who needs to act.
Add the places the people you love call home. EarthCanary checks each one every few minutes and gives you a single, honest read on every person — they're fine, worth keeping an eye on, or in real danger. When it's that last one, the app tells them exactly what to do.
Each person shows up as a name, a clear status, and a meter that climbs as the danger grows. There's nothing to interpret and no jargon to wade through. Green means they're okay. Red means they need you.
A tornado warning usually covers a whole county, which tells you almost nothing about your own house. EarthCanary checks each person against the real storm and where it's heading, so you can see that Jake has about eight minutes while Gran, five miles away, is already clear.
PER-PERSON ETAYou don't have to keep it open or keep checking. The alert lands on your phone at the moments that count — when a warning goes out, when the storm turns toward someone, when the minutes get short. Tornado and flash-flood alerts come through even on silent.
All of them feed into that same simple status for each person, so one look covers the whole picture. Whatever the most serious threat is, that's the one you see first.
With a wildfire, the wind decides everything. EarthCanary tracks where the fire is, whether the wind is pushing it toward you right now, and when the forecast calls for a shift that would turn it your way. It watches the jet stream too, since that's what drives the sudden gusts that make fires so dangerous.
WIND · SHIFT · JET STREAMYou get the flash-flood warning for your exact area, along with the river forecast showing the hour the water is expected to crest. That's real lead time to get somewhere safe, not just a siren after it's already rising.
When a major earthquake strikes near one of your places, this turns on by itself. It gives you the odds of a strong aftershock, how long the danger stays high, and a plain reminder not to walk back into a damaged building yet.
CALIBRATEDA readiness score you can actually act on. Work through the things that matter before an emergency ever happens, like a kit, a family plan, and knowing your way out, and watch your score climb as you go. The basics that EarthCanary can see for itself, like having alerts on, count automatically.
The long view of the planet's health. A handful of the Earth's vital signs, from global temperature to sea ice to the state of the oceans, each measured against a threshold that scientists have actually published. Hover any meter to see exactly what goes into it. It's an honest gauge of where things stand, not a doom countdown.
Plenty of apps and websites will happily scare you for attention. EarthCanary is built the opposite way. It runs on official data from the National Weather Service, USGS, and NASA, and it never claims more certainty than the science behind it can support. If a storm's path is still uncertain, it says so, because on something this important a false sense of certainty is dangerous.
Everything it forecasts is tested before it ever reaches you, and every one of those calls is scored against what actually happened. If you want to check our work, all of it is open.
Keeping your people safe should never sit behind a paywall. The whole safety side of EarthCanary is free, for good. If it earns a place in your life and you want to help keep it running, there's a way to do that too.