Americas / United States · Environment

Extreme heat wave in California breaks records and raises wildfire risk

Rank
Running: 24h
Updated: 16h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 4
Regions: 3
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

CGTN China · English 5 Oct, 01:15 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Polski (1)

Read at CGTN

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CGTN, 5 Oct, 01:15 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Guardian.
Second region: Europe, with The Guardian.
Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%

First movers

CGTN 5 Oct, 01:15 UTC
The Guardian +7h 6m
TVN24 +8h 37m
Times of Oman +10h 19m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Extreme heat wave affects Southern California for a week, 2 to 4 Oct 2026, 6 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 2: Poland, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Oman. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Polish.
Timeline: Earliest article CGTN, 5 Oct 2026, 01:15 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:34 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.21, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Extreme heat wave affects Southern California for a week. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

5 Oct 2026 274 3.48 4 4 4 4 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 03:10 UTC · Updated 11:34 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Covered by 4 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 2 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet