ShadePlan
A pocket heat-safety planner for outdoor festivals, fairs, and theme parks: feed it your ticket, it tells you which pavilions have AC, when to take the shaded lunch break, and where the nearest cooling tent is on the map.
families and visitors attending large outdoor events during heat waves
- Hour-by-hour 'heat budget' that schedules indoor breaks before kids or elderly relatives overheat
- Crowd-sourced map of cooling stations, misting tents, and shaded seating, refreshed live
- Push alerts when nearby pavilions hit capacity or temperatures cross your personal threshold
- Hydration and sunscreen nudges calibrated to your skin type and the day's UV index
The Guardian reported 12+ heat illness cases and 11 hospitalizations at Trump's Great American State Fair in 100°F+ heat — a vivid reminder that even flagship outdoor events ship with almost no heat-safety tooling for visitors.
Multiple confirmed incidents: 44 treated / 11 hospitalized / several on life support at Great American State Fair in 100°F+ heat; Lancet published on heat illness at mass gatherings; 17 hospitalized at Ed Sheeran concert — demand is real and recurring.44 people treated at Great American State Fair due to scorching heat ↗Confronting heat-related illnesses and deaths at mass gathering events ↗Keeping fans safe in a warming world: a growing challenge for outdoor events ↗
Theme park apps (Six Flags, coaster.cloud) focus on wait times/rides, not heat; existing festival software (Iventis, EventMapStudio) is B2B organizer-side; no visitor-facing heat-safety planner found in any search.Six Flags - Official Theme Park App with Maps & Tickets | Free ↗Festival Crowd Flow in Heat: Shortcuts and Shade Beacons ↗Festival Planning & Management Software - Iventis ↗
Theme park and festival apps are overwhelmingly free; families paying for a one-shot heat-safety app is unproven, and the cited 'cnn news' Google Trends signal reflects a network name, not heat-app search demand — a B2B2C (festival-paid) pivot is plausible but unverified.Six Flags - Official Theme Park App with Real-Time Updates | Free ↗
Climate.gov and Lancet both confirm rising heat-related morbidity at outdoor events; Canada.ca documents increased heat hospitalizations during extreme heat events — trend is monotonically upward due to climate change.Keeping fans safe in a warming world ↗Heat-related morbidity and mortality in Canada ↗
Requires organizer-fed data on pavilion AC, cooling tents, and shaded zones (no public dataset exists); plus real-time heat-index overlay and routing — only Six Flags-style park apps exist for major venues, so building per-event is data-acquisition-heavy.Six Flags - Official Theme Park App with Maps & Tickets | Free ↗