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Today's Domestic items on the public record: US severe or extreme weather alerts with a mapped area, issued in 24 hours: 12, -2 on a day earlier; Active US…
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- US severe or extreme weather alerts with a mapped area, issued in 24 hours: 12, -2 on a day earlier — in effect now; alerts covering whole forecast zones have no mapped area and are not counted (National Weather Service, 8 Nov 2026)
- Active US wildfire incidents: 165, -11 on a day earlier — 55 US wildfire perimeters, 29 over 1,000 acres (NIFC (WFIGS), 8 Nov 2026)
- Aspen Acres fire: 102,003 acres, 96% contained, unchanged since 1 Nov (NIFC (WFIGS), 8 Nov 2026)
- Grasshopper fire: 93,971 acres, 98% contained, unchanged since 1 Nov (NIFC (WFIGS), 8 Nov 2026)
- Hagen fire: 61,380 acres, 99% contained, unchanged since 1 Nov (NIFC (WFIGS), 8 Nov 2026)
- Gold Mountain fire: 39,747 acres, 92% contained, unchanged since 1 Nov (NIFC (WFIGS), 8 Nov 2026)
- Across 51 states, employed people and labor force move together most closely (rank correlation +0.93) — Whether the latest one-year changes of two state conditions line up across the states: +1 means the states that rose most on one rose most on the other; the bars show the strength of the link, either way. An… (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- LA ranks 1st on the Health Board: 43 of 66 measures near the best of their own history — 43 inclining, 12 dragging, balance +0.47 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- MS ranks 2nd on the Health Board: 40 of 65 measures near the best of their own history — 40 inclining, 12 dragging, balance +0.43 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- IL ranks 3rd on the Health Board: 40 of 66 measures near the best of their own history — 40 inclining, 14 dragging, balance +0.39 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- OR ranks 51st on the Health Board: 28 of 66 measures near the worst of their own history — 28 inclining, 28 dragging, balance +0.00 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- VT ranks 50th on the Health Board: 25 of 63 measures near the worst of their own history — 29 inclining, 25 dragging, balance +0.06 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- AK ranks 48th on the Health Board: 24 of 65 measures near the worst of their own history — 30 inclining, 24 dragging, balance +0.09 (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- 16 of 62 scored national measures sit near the worst of their own history; 37 sit near the best — 62 measures read since 2023. Each latest value is placed in its own record (in the worst 30% it counts as near the worst, turned around where lower is better). Weakest against their own record: Credit-card debt per… (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- Georgia has the most mapped license-plate cameras per 100,000 residents: 91.6 — Volunteers have mapped 145,601 automated license-plate readers nationwide. Today's map only, and a floor: unmapped cameras exist. (OpenStreetMap contributors (DeFlock volunteers' mapping), 8 Nov 2026)
- West Virginia's labor force is near the worst of its 50 yearly readings — State and measure pairs in the worst tenth of their own record (turned around where lower is better), ranked by how many yearly readings the record holds; the bars are those counts. Strongest incline: Pennsylvania's… (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- 10 of 63 state measures are near the worst of their own record in at least 40 states at once — Most in wealth & debt (3). A measure counts when a state's latest value sits in the bad end of that state's own record (the worst 30%, turned around where lower is better). In every state: Loans per 1k homes… (Federal and state statistics (Census, BLS, CDC, FBI and others), 8 Nov 2026)
- Beside its allies, partners and rivals the U.S. stands weakest on infant mortality, per 1,000 births: 3rd highest of 15 — The five of 7 measures where the U.S. is furthest from the best of its peers; 100 is the best place among them, 0 the worst, whichever way is good. World Bank data, each country's latest year. (World Bank World Development Indicators, 7 Nov 2026)
- The largest corporate hub is Meta Platforms · Los Lunas (NM): 34.0 million square feet of mapped buildings — Buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap and tied to a company, summed by hub; the five largest of 3,815 hubs. Around Los Lunas: home ownership 76.0% there against 69.8% in the state; unemployment 4.5% there against 4.2% in… (OpenStreetMap contributors, Census Bureau and BLS, 7 Nov 2026)
- S&P 500 under finished presidential terms since 1929: median +11.5% a year under Democratic presidents and +7.2% a year under Republican presidents — Democratic: 14 finished terms, from -12.5% to +33.3% a year (45.8 points wide) · Republican: 12 finished terms, from -30.8% to +14.3% a year (45.2 points wide) · The party medians are 4.2 points apart · S&P 500 closes… (S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P 500 daily closes); Library of Congress (presidents' terms), 5 Nov 2026)