Local health and environmental alerts

A lot of the risk that actually changes a day at home is not a crime story. It is a boil-water notice, a recall, an air-quality day, a wildfire, or a spill that closes a block. Consilium groups those with crime alerts so you have one place to look. This page is about the health and environmental side: what the app watches, and which of those hazards also have a public weekly report.

Health alerts, including boil-water notices

Health alerts cover outbreaks, product recalls, air quality, water contamination, and advisories from public agencies and local posts. A boil-water notice is the example we keep coming back to, because it is specific, official, and easy to miss if you are not in the right group chat. The homepage shows one from Zion, Illinois: the source, the moment it was detected, and a resolved status once the advisory ended. That last part matters. An alert that never clears becomes noise.

Consilium monitors more than 15,000 sources, including health agencies, local reporting, and community signals, across more than 4,000 US cities. The free app tells you what is confirmed for your area. It does not try to make a national outbreak feel local when it is not. You can turn categories on or off. If you do not want air-quality alerts, you will not get them.

Environmental hazards

Environmental warnings cover wildfires, floods, toxic releases, severe weather that affects your routes, and chemical or hazardous-material incidents. Official warning systems are real, and they are also sometimes late or written for a whole county when you need the block. Consilium’s job is to put the verified item on your phone when it can change what you do today.

Two of those hazards are published every week as public reports, separate from the app. The weekly chemical incidents report summarizes National Response Center notifications, including how many were notable because the initial report mentioned fire, evacuation, injury, fatality, or a closed transportation corridor. The weekly earthquake report lists USGS-reported earthquakes, the count at magnitude 2.5 or greater, and the largest event. Neither page names your street. They are the national picture. The app is the local one.

How this sits next to crime

Health and environmental alerts share the app with crime intelligence. A week of reported incidents is on the weekly US crime report. The public safety data guide explains the limits of all three weekly pages: recent crime counts can be revised, earthquake magnitudes can be updated, and chemical notices are initial and self-reported. Read that before you treat a map as a complete count.

If you want the version that follows your city, the features page describes the free alerts and the optional Premium forecasts. The breaking news page is about why a national headline is a poor substitute for a local advisory. Coverage, privacy, and downloads are on the FAQ, and the homepage has the App Store and Google Play badges.