Changelog

Aurora Tonight blends NOAA's space-weather model, the cloud forecast and the hours of real darkness into a plain answer on whether it's worth heading out — with the Midnight Dome and the Dempster noted as dark-sky spots. Through the midnight-sun weeks it says so honestly; it comes into its own from late August, when the nights turn dark enough again.

The waterfront market, Gerties' nightly season, the Parks Canada tour roster, and the festival dates — DCMF this weekend, Moosehide Gathering, Honky Tonk and Discovery Days — each verified against its own page.

Today's modelled air quality over the townsite, updated hourly — mostly a smoke page in fire season. Dawson has no monitoring station, so the page says plainly these numbers are a model, and to trust your nose and the wildfire updates when smoke is about.

Named fires burning near town from the national CIFFC feed — distance, direction, size and stage of control — with the Yukon's official alert channels first. An out-of-control label describes fire behaviour, not an evacuation order; those come from Yukon Protective Services.

The Dempster and Top of the World highways have long stretches with no fuel, and running out is a real danger. Enter your tank size, your fuel use and the reserve you want to keep, and the tool works out the longest fuel-free stretch on each road — 409 km from Dawson to Eagle Plains on the Dempster, 171 km to Chicken on the Top of the World — and how much extra fuel to carry, with the ferry seasons and a remote-travel checklist.

Dawson already had the live Yukon River gauge; this adds the Klondike River, the channel whose ice jams drove the May 2023 evacuation at Rock Creek and Henderson Corner. It reads the official Water Survey of Canada gauge above Bonanza Creek, shows the river's level and flow against its recent range, and points to the Yukon Flood Hub and the Emergency Measures Organization for the official flood call.

The first tools for Dawson: the live Yukon River level and flow for the break-up flood watch, a river-crossing status that tells you whether the ferry, the ice bridge, or neither is running today, a daylight clock for the long swing from June to December, a neighbour-reported power-outage board, and a who-to-call directory.