The living network

Three thousand fires, one flame.

Every logged fire joins this map. Follow any flame back through its lineage — across troops, decades, and continents — to the very first.

Brownsea Island Accra

LIVE NETWORK · 3,418 FIRES · 587 TROOPS · 1,902 PLACES

Origin Lit this week Logged fire

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The chain, this week.

How the feed will read once the app is live — every fire traceable, link by link, back to Brownsea Island.

Example data — the live feed arrives with the app

Fire	Place	Troop	Date	Lineage
No. 3418	Accra, Ghana	Troop 12 · Ridge	08 Jun 2026	41 links
No. 3417	Hokkaidō, Japan	Sapporo 3rd	06 Jun 2026	58 links
No. 3416	Yosemite, USA	Troop 233	05 Jun 2026	12 links
No. 3415	Dorset, England	1st Wareham	01 Jun 2026	119 links
No. 3414	Patagonia, Chile	Grupo Cóndor	29 May 2026	23 links

Lineage

Follow any fire home.

Open a fire on the map and walk its chain backward, link by link. Most fires reach the original flame in under two hundred steps — every one of them a real night, a real circle of people.

Find your fire — app coming 2026

No. 0001

Brownsea Island

1907

No. 0214

Olympia, London

1920

No. 1129

Sutton Park

1957

No. 2876

Kandersteg

2019

No. 3418

Accra, Ghana

2026

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