Every country in the world, scored for instability.
Sentinel reads five open signals, turns them into one number for all 197 countries, and recomputes it four times a day. When something moves, the map moves with it.
All ten sit in the High band, which starts at the tick. The app names the band, not the decimal, so the bars are shown the same way. Averaged over the 28 runs of the last seven days, so one bad reading cannot move the order.
How the number is built
Five signals, one score.
The weights are fixed and applied the same way to every country, so a quiet week in one place means what it means in another. Nothing is tuned per country after the fact.
Three bands, and where the world sits.
The scale runs 0 to 100. Which band a country falls in matters more than the exact figure, so the app leads with the band and keeps the number beside it.
Countries in each band, latest run of 197 scored.
What sits on the map
Layers you can switch on, and where each one comes from.
Every layer names its source in the app, in the same words used here. If a feed is down, the layer says so rather than drawing an empty map.
Wildfires
Thermal detections from orbit, filtered to the fires that are an event where they are burning.
NASA FIRMSFire danger
What could burn today, from the European forecast model, rather than what is already alight.
CopernicusAirtankers
Water bombers currently airborne, tracked live from receivers run by volunteers.
Community ADS-B networkMilitary aircraft
Strategic transport, tankers and surveillance aircraft in flight, from the same open network.
Community ADS-B networkNuclear sites
Civil and military nuclear facilities, plotted from the open structured database.
WikidataChoke points
The maritime straits where a large share of world trade has to pass through a narrow gap.
SentinelAn editorial decision, published
A satellite can see 24,284 fires. We put 933 on the map.
Instruments in orbit detect heat, not intent. Across the southern African savanna, August is burning season: land cleared on purpose, every year, on schedule. A global ranking of raw detections would be a list of farmland, every day, indefinitely.
So fires are ranked inside each country instead of against the world. Every fire in a country where fire is an event, and only the significant ones where burning is routine. Filtering is not hiding. It is the whole job.
Counts read 22 August 2026. They move with every satellite pass.
Inside a country
What is happening now, in words.
Open a country and the ranking stops being the point. The page opens on a written account of what is driving it, then what the same situation is doing to the countries around it.
What it costs
The index is free. The depth is not.
Reading the world costs nothing. Pro is for the people who go past the first reading every day.
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