See what’s happening around you, without checking six different places.
Is it near you?
Disaster Scout helps you see what’s happening around you by bringing together official emergency warnings, bushfires and wildfires, floods, severe weather and other useful conditions in one easier-to-navigate place.
Check what’s happening near home, around someone you care about or somewhere you’re travelling all without needing to know which agency website to check first.
Official information. Always linked back to the source.
WHEN SOMETHING’S HAPPENING, YOU SHOULDN’T NEED SIX TABS OPEN.
Depending on your location, Disaster Scout brings together information including:
Official emergency warnings
Current warnings from authorised emergency and government sources, with direct links back to the issuing agency.
Fires, floods and other incidents
See active incidents on the map and understand where they are in relation to you.
Weather, smoke and air quality
Useful context including radar, fire danger, smoke and air quality where available.
Roads and disruptions
Additional information that can help you understand what’s happening around an incident.
Community Reports
Reviewed local observations that can add context alongside official information.
Keep an eye on the places that matter.
You don’t only care about what’s happening where you are.
It might be your parents’ place, the farm, a holiday house, somewhere you’re camping or the town you’re travelling through next week.
With Watch Zones, you can follow the places you care about and receive relevant Disaster Scout notifications when qualifying activity occurs nearby.
Emergency information is usually available. Understanding the whole picture can be harder.
A single incident can involve an emergency service website, a weather service, road information, air quality data and different systems depending on which state, territory or province you’re in.
Disaster Scout brings useful public information together so you can more quickly answer the question:
What’s happening, and is it near me?
We don’t issue official emergency warnings or replace emergency services.
Official authorities remain the source of truth for warnings and emergency instructions. Disaster Scout exists to make that information easier to find and navigate alongside other useful context.
Why Disaster Scout exists
Disaster Scout Australia
See emergency warnings, bushfires, floods, severe weather, fire danger and other available incident information across Australia.
Disaster Scout Canada
See wildfires, evacuation information, weather, smoke, air quality and other available incident information across Canada (BC to start).