Island Watch is a Vancouver Island public-status dashboard built by Jeromy Mobley.
Island Watch helps you check roads, ferries, weather, flood, wildfire, access, and emergency-awareness updates before you travel or make plans.
It is a scan layer. Official sources are the final authority.
- Relationship
- Independent; not affiliated with monitored agencies
- Use case
- Regional operations before travel, commute, or planning
- Sources
- 14 active feeds
Built by
Jeromy MobleyWhat it watches
Road and ferry corridors
Highway incidents, corridor construction, ferry cancellations, sailing delays, and terminal advisories.
Transit and public access
Transit service alerts and park access advisories that can affect whether someone should go, wait, or reroute.
Weather, air, and rivers
Weather alerts, AQHI readings, flood warnings, flood watches, and high streamflow advisories.
Wildfire and fire rules
Current wildfire context, public fire prohibitions, equipment/activity restrictions, and area restrictions.
Emergency awareness
Current EmergencyInfoBC summaries, evacuation boundaries, tsunami bulletins, and recent earthquake reports when they clear the Island Watch visibility threshold.
How to use it
Scan
Check roads, ferries, weather, flood, wildfire, and emergency awareness in one pass.
Read source + check status
Open the linked source and confirm when it was last checked.
Act through providers
Make decisions from official agency pages, not from this aggregate only.
Trust and limits
Fast scan first. Official source second.
Island Watch aggregates public updates and keeps each item linked to its source. For safety, travel, and operational decisions, confirm with the official agency pages.
Checks can be delayed or incomplete when a source lags, changes format, publishes broad notices, or is temporarily paused for permission or reliability reasons.
It is not an emergency service, dispatch service, official government channel, or substitute for provider websites, local authority instructions, 911, EmergencyInfoBC, DriveBC, BC Ferries, BC Transit, BC Wildfire Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, BC River Forecast Centre, BC Parks, or other official sources.
Independent
Built and maintained independently. Source names are preserved; there is no agency endorsement implied.
Official handoff
Each alert includes source links, timestamps, and source-check context for final verification.
Not an emergency channel
This is a monitoring layer, not a substitute for official emergency broadcasts or authority instructions.
Privacy and data
Island Watch does not require an account. Check preferences and dismissed or snoozed updates can be stored in your browser so the dashboard opens in the state you last used. Vercel Analytics helps maintain the service and understand broad usage. If you submit an issue report, the comment, optional contact detail, and browser user agent can be stored for review. Island Watch is not an emergency reporting channel.
Sources and source checks
Island Watch monitors active public feeds and provider pages where available, then displays source names, links, timestamps, and check context. A recent check means the source feed was requested, not that every possible change has already appeared.
Source checks are separate from visibility
Some healthy sources show zero visible updates because quiet readings, no-alert bulletins, or low-impact items stay in source health instead of the main dashboard.
Open the dashboard for current updates, source health, map context, and direct links to providers.