What it is
StationClosed helps you check the weather around your pickup station before you leave. The live map brings together station weather estimates, nearby lightning, radar and forecasts. It covers listed stations in the US, Canada and other countries, but the available data varies by location.
A red dot means weather reports suggest a possible closure. It does not confirm that the station has closed or that your block has been cancelled. Check the Flex app and follow instructions from station staff.
It is an independent tool built by a driver for drivers, run on one small server at stationclosed.com. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates; "Amazon Flex" names the delivery program the tracked stations belong to. Everything here is an unofficial reading of public weather information. Station leadership makes the final call on closures, and a block is never guaranteed either way.
How a station gets its colour
For every station the server gathers the weather reports and advisories currently active for the surrounding area (started, not expired, not cancelled) and ranks them by severity. When the most severe one is at the red level, the station shows as weather reports indicate a closed station. When something is active but below that level, such as lightning in the area or a wind advisory, the station shows as weather advisories near the station. With nothing active, it has no local weather advisories. The kinds of report that count as the red level are listed on the map page under "How this tracker works".
Lightning is handled separately: the server keeps the last 30 minutes of lightning reports from national lightning databases and flags each station with a strike reported within 6 miles (and, more loosely, within 10). Cloud-to-cloud flashes are ignored. The all-clear time is 30 minutes after the latest strike inside 6 miles, about the clock drivers commonly report stations reopening on; station leadership makes the call. A tornado icon appears when a station sits inside an active tornado warning polygon from the National Weather Service or, in Canada, Environment Canada.
Where the data comes from
- Advisories, tornado warnings and forecasts: the National Weather Service, through its public data services; for the Canadian stations, Environment Canada's warnings and the city forecast nearest each station. Everywhere else, the forecast and the national weather service's warnings come through Visual Crossing (weather data provided by Visual Crossing), and when its daily allowance is spent, the forecast from MET Norway (data from MET Norway).
- Wind and weather now: the latest report from the airport nearest each station (within 25 miles), anywhere in the world: the wind and gusts measured, thunder heard and lightning seen. In Japan also the nearest of the Japan Meteorological Agency's weather stations, with the day's strongest gust.
- A nearby citizen weather station (outside the US, where one reports within 25 km): its latest public reading. The sheet says how far the station is and how old the reading.
- Official warnings outside the US and Canada, each from the national weather service itself: the Japan Meteorological Agency for Japan, the India Meteorological Department (through NDMA's SACHET) for India, the Met Office for the UK, the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional for Mexico, INMET for Brazil, and MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) for the rest of Europe. Each shows with its source and time of issue and a link to the original.
- Gusts and thunder ahead, worldwide: a global forecast model, hour by hour for the next day, for every station outside the US and Canada.
- Radar: NOAA's national base-reflectivity mosaic, which takes in Environment Canada's radars up to about 55°N, redrawn on the tracker's own map. The hour ahead comes from NOAA's short-range forecast model; it reaches about 50°N, so it stops short of Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon. Beyond NOAA's reach (the UK, Europe, India, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii and the rest), the radar and the minute-by-minute rain for the next few hours come from Rainbow.ai, which blends national radars with satellite.
- Base map: USGS The National Map, and Natural Resources Canada's base map for Canada's streets; elsewhere Natural Earth's coastlines and borders, and from the city zooms in CARTO's street map (© OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO).
- Lightning: lightning databases covering most of the world, refreshed every half minute, and in Japan also the Japan Meteorological Agency's own lightning network; ground strikes (not cloud flashes) are what count toward the 6-mile rule everywhere. The chance of lightning in the next hour or two reads the storms' tracks, with a thunderstorm outlook and the weather models' own lightning and thunderstorm forecasts beside them, among them: based on data from Deutscher Wetterdienst, own elements added (its ICON models, NowCastELEC and MOSMIX); data source: Environment and Climate Change Canada; based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), changed by us, under CC BY 4.0 (ECMWF does not accept liability for any use of it); and the Met Office's lightning probabilities (© Crown copyright, the Met Office, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the lightning chances built with them are shared under the same licence).
- Station locations: public station lists (Warehouse.ninja and others). Station security incidents ("Something is going on at the station. It might be closed.") come from police dispatch and local news reports.
- Flexer reports: once accounts are open, signed-in drivers can report a station closed or open from its details; the flag lasts 30 minutes and sits beside the weather status without changing it.
The server fetches all of it once, for everyone; your browser talks to this site, to the ad network while ads are shown, and, when you zoom in on streets outside the US and Canada, to CARTO for its map tiles (CARTO's terms don't allow relaying them). None of the weather services ever sees who you are.
What the map shows you
Free accounts and signed-out visitors can view one station at a time, with a 30-minute wait between selections. Sign in to see your station's full details and turn on phone alerts. Pro covers stations within 20 miles of your Main Station in one state; Ultra covers your state or province. Paid passes add the coverage listed at checkout.
Everyone gets the radar over the whole country as it is now, with a fast-forward through the next hour (sharp when you zoom in) and the last hour a drag away, and the forecast for any station they can open. Freshness works like a shared clock: without an account and on the free plan, the picture updates every 6 minutes, at the same moment for everyone, and free closure alerts go out at those moments too; Pro updates every minute and Ultra live, every half minute.
Alerts
Sign in, save your Main Station and turn on notifications to get closure alerts on your phone. Free includes one station. Pro and Ultra add email alerts and more coverage within their plan limits. Alerts describe the tracker's weather estimate; they are not instructions from Amazon.
Quiet hours are 9 PM to 3 AM in the station's time zone unless you change them or turn them off. Every alert email has an unsubscribe link. Text messages are used for sign-in codes, not closure alerts.
Questions drivers ask
The tracker says my station is closed, but I got a block there. The tracker reads weather reports, not the station's decision. A red status means the reports around the station are of the kind that usually goes with a closure; a station can stay open through them, and can close without them. Treat it as an early warning and check the Flex app.
Why did the status change back to open so quickly? Weather reports have an end time and lightning has a 30-minute all-clear rule; when they lapse, the status follows. Reopening is the station's call and may come later than the tracker's estimate.
Does it cover Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico? Yes. NOAA's radar mosaic covers the lower 48 states only, so the radar there comes from Rainbow.ai, as it does outside North America.
Does it cover stations outside the US and Canada? Yes. The directory includes stations in other countries, including the UK, Japan, India and parts of Europe and Latin America. The site follows your region and plan's access limits. Forecast, lightning and radar coverage can differ by country; missing data is not a sign of clear weather.
Does it cover Canada? Yes. Amazon's Canadian stations show the same weather reports and lightning as the US ones, with Environment Canada's forecasts and tornado warnings. Settings switch the tracker to °C, km/h and km.
Can I check another station? Free accounts and signed-out visitors can view one station at a time. After choosing a station, wait 30 minutes before switching. Sign in to see that station's full details; signing in does not unlock every station. Pro and Ultra offer broader coverage within their plan limits. The public directory and completed history remain available without a subscription.
Is it free? Yes for the map and a free account; paid plans add more. Ads and paid plans pay for part of the server, and the rest runs on donations. The Donate button in the top bar and the banner over the map take donations in Bitcoin, Solana or ETH from a free account, and the first donation of $22.00 or more on an account comes with a year of Ultra as thanks.
What happens to my data? The privacy page explains what is stored in your browser and on the server, which services receive data, and how to download your information or delete your account.
Disclaimer
Flex Weather Tracker is an independent tool for information only. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and it does not decide whether a station closes, a block is cancelled or a block pays.
Station statuses, closure reports, weather reports, radar, lightning, storm paths, forecasts, closing-soon warnings, alerts and every other estimate on this site and in its apps come from automated sources and models. They can be late, incomplete or wrong, and a station can close or stay open whatever the tracker shows. Always follow the Amazon Flex app, your station's staff and local authorities, and use your own judgement about the weather and your safety.
We do not promise that any information, alert or prediction is accurate, complete or on time, or that alerts will arrive: phones, carriers, email providers, networks and settings can delay or block them. We are not responsible for decisions made using the tracker, such as accepting, keeping, driving to or forfeiting a block, or for lost earnings, missed or cancelled blocks, actions on your Amazon Flex account, damage or injury that follow from them.
To the fullest extent the law allows, the tracker and its apps are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, and our total liability for any claim relating to them is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or nothing if you used them for free. Some places do not allow these limits, and then they apply only as far as the law allows.
Contact
Corrections, a station that is missing or misplaced, or anything else: support@stationclosed.com.