I got tired of guessing what the fire restrictions were, so I built this.

Right now, for the CFPA Gold Beach Unit

This is the Coos Forest Protective Association's Gold Beach Unit — the district covering my place and the town itself. If you're up in the north end of the county, you're likely in a different CFPA unit with its own separate rating, and this reading isn't yours. That's exactly why the widget below exists — grab it and it checks the right one for your own spot, not mine.

Three ways to use it — pick whatever fits you

1. Just check this page. Bookmark it. Nothing to install, nothing to trust beyond a bookmark.
2. Put an icon on your phone or desktop. Your browser can turn this page into something that looks and opens like an app — on iPhone/Android it's "Add to Home Screen" from the share menu; on a computer, Chrome/Edge show an "Install" icon in the address bar. It's still just this web page, your browser doing something it already knows how to do. No download, no installer, nothing that can carry a virus.
3. Add it to your own website. One line of code, your own zip in it. Reads Oregon's fire data directly for that spot — no detour through us. Shown below.

Why there's no app to download

I thought about this. If I handed you a program to run on your computer, you'd be right not to trust it — you don't know me, and there's no way for your antivirus, your browser, or you to actually verify a stranger's executable is safe before you run it. So I didn't build one. There isn't a program here at all.

What's actually on offer is a few lines of plain JavaScript that read Oregon's own public fire data directly and draw a small badge with the answer. That's it. No install, no permissions, no account, nothing it collects from you or your visitors. Once it's live, you'll be able to read the exact code yourself before you use it — that's the real proof, not a badge or a promise from me.

Add it to your site

Paste this wherever your site lets you add a bit of code — a header/footer snippet plugin on WordPress, custom code injection on Wix/Squarespace, or straight into your template. Put your own zip in it:

<script src="https://awackhosting.com/firewatch-widget.js" data-zip="97444"></script>

That's the whole install. It geocodes that zip, checks it directly against Oregon Dept. of Forestry's own public fire-danger map for that exact spot, and draws a small badge with the answer — not through us, not through any AWACK Hosting system, just your zip against ODF's own data. Outside an ODF fire district (or outside Oregon — the code works anywhere, it just won't have data to show) it says so plainly instead of guessing. Prefer a full street address over a zip? Use data-address="123 Main St, Gold Beach, OR" instead. Read the exact code → before you use it.

We put this together in an afternoon because it was a real problem and the pieces were already sitting here. If you want something built for your business — even something this small — that's literally what AWACK Hosting does.