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.
Yes, I can log into ODF's website, or I can log into the Coos Forest Protective Association's webpage — both cover Curry County, and both will tell me the fire status. There's even a sign about two miles from my door I could drive down and read. But none of that helps from my own house. I'll be out working, about to fire up a chainsaw, and realize I don't actually know today's rating — or it changed since I last checked. So I built this instead: a quick look at my phone or my own website tells me right then, no detour required. Now anyone can have it too, free.
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.
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.
Example — how it looks dropped into a site footer:
FirewatchModerate · zone CS-4We 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.
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