Checks public orders
Mast watches federal and state flag-status sources for half-staff orders, observances, and official notices.
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Flag information
Guides for flag status, terms, and observances.
Browse plain-language explainers for U.S. flag etiquette, half-staff terminology, state status pages, and national days of remembrance.
How Mast works
Mast is an informational flag-status tool. It helps answer whether a U.S. flag should be flown at full-staff or half-staff, why the order is active, and where to verify the official source.
Normalizes the details
Each detected order is organized by location, authority, start date, end date, and source so the current status is easier to read.
Shows the source
Mast is informational, so active orders include a source link when available and should be verified with the official notice when it matters.
Explains half-staff
Half-staff means lowering the flag below the top of the staff as a sign of mourning, remembrance, or honor for the period named in an official order.
Alerts
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Browser
Morning alerts when there is an active flag order for this device.
Email
Morning alerts when there is an active flag order delivered to your inbox.
SMS Coming soon
Text alerts are planned for morning flag-order updates.
SMS alerts are not available yet.
Mast API
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Source-backed data
Current status
/api/v1/status?countryCode=US
Half-staff status
Authority
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Montana flag sources and verification
Mast tracks current federal flag orders and known Montana state orders so residents, public buildings, schools, businesses, and local websites can quickly check whether flags should be at half-staff or full-staff today.
The Montana source in Mast is Montana Governor / news.mt.gov, categorized as Official Governor News Limited. Montana does not publish a dedicated current-status page in the source registry, so Mast checks official notices and dated directives. Mast also uses the source to track historical Montana half-staff notices when dated orders are available.
Montana does not expose a reliable machine-readable current flag status; the public flag-status utility renders both full-staff and half-staff states. The importer treats Montana as limited official-news discovery, queries the Governor newsroom article JSON when available, keeps known Governor notice URLs as fallbacks, derives current status only from retained dated notices, and parses today, sunrise-to-sunset, until-date, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Flag status reference
Mast answers a common question quickly: should a flag be at half-staff or full-staff today? The page shows the current status, the relevant authority, date range, and source when a known order is available.
The public API can also provide flag status data for websites, dashboards, signage, and small automations that need a simple JSON response.