Trouble breathing? Call 911. HiveWatch Utah is not an official alert or medical service.
About
A small, independent site that reads Wasatch Front air and pollen in plain words, and points you to the agencies that measure it.
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I live in Utah. I write, I make art, and I live with a chronic illness, so a bad-air week changes my plans. I wanted one calm page that says what the air is doing, what the burn rules are, and what is blooming, without an app that argues with itself.
HiveWatch Utah is a sister to Prepare Utah and FaultLine Utah. Prepare Utah is the household plan. FaultLine Utah is the earthquake page. This one is the air page. A hive shares one air; so does a valley.
I am not a doctor, an air-quality scientist, or a spokesperson for any agency. The status line on the home page is my hand-typed read of public sources. It is not an alert.
Every 30 minutes, a scheduled job on GitHub collects three public feeds and saves them as one small file on this site. The home page reads that file. HiveWatch does not change the values, and it uses EPA’s official AQI colors.
| What | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| What3-day health forecast and action (burn) level for each county | FromUtah DEQ, Division of Air Quality | NotesIssued by DAQ daily. DAQ says its newest data are not quality assured. |
| WhatAQI now, by reporting area | FromU.S. EPA AirNow, with data from Utah DAQ | NotesHourly NowCast AQI as AirNow publishes it. Preliminary. |
| WhatSmoke, dust and stagnant-air alerts | FromNational Weather Service Salt Lake City | NotesShown only when one is active for these counties. |
If a feed is down, the last good copy stays up and the page says so. If the whole file is more than a few hours old, the page tells you to check air.utah.gov instead.
Pollen has no live numbers here. The only active certified pollen counter on the Wasatch Front belongs to the AAAAI National Allergy Bureau network, which does not allow reuse of its counts without written permission. The Pollen page links to it and uses published sources for the calendar.
Guide pages cite their sources next to each claim. Each page shows the date it was last checked.
HiveWatch Utah has no accounts, no analytics, no cookies, and no ads. It never asks for your location. The county cards are in a file on this site, so your browser loads pages, styles, and data only from HiveWatch, not from the agencies or anyone else.
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub receives your IP address and browser details when you load a page, and GitHub’s privacy statement applies. When you follow a link to an agency or another site, that site’s policy applies.
If that ever changes, this section changes first, in plain language.