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Land & Fire Map

— the map I check before I pick a spot —

Before I settle on a place for the night I want to know four things: who manages the land, whether anything is burning nearby, whether the ground floods, and whether I'm on tribal land with its own rules. Search a town, map a route, or use your location, then open Layers.

Reading the layers

🏞 Public land is coloured by who manages it: BLM yellow, Forest Service green, National Parks brown, Fish & Wildlife blue, state land blue-violet, local land purple. A dashed red edge means closed to the public; dashed orange, restricted. Tap any patch for the unit name. Dispersed camping is usually allowed on BLM and National Forest land, but every district has its own limits, so check before you settle in.

🔥 Active fires shows current perimeters and new wildfire starts, updated through the day. 🌊 Flood zones are FEMA's 100-year flood areas; I steer clear of those when rain is forecast upstream. 🪶 Tribal lands are federal reservations, where the tribe sets the rules and camping often needs a permit.

The same layers are on the maps in StayTonight, the app I built to find tonight's spot along a route.

Data: USGS PAD-US, NIFC, FEMA and US Census, served by Esri. Routing by OSRM, place search by OpenStreetMap Nominatim.