diff --git a/drb-frontend/components/map/OutageLayer.tsx b/drb-frontend/components/map/OutageLayer.tsx
index 63dd7a5..31a6fed 100644
--- a/drb-frontend/components/map/OutageLayer.tsx
+++ b/drb-frontend/components/map/OutageLayer.tsx
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ function OutagePopupBody({ a, feed }: { a: OutageArea; feed?: OutageProviderFeed
         </ul>
       )}
       <div className="text-[10px] text-ink-muted">County-level count — the marker is the county&apos;s centre, not where the outage is.</div>
+      {feed?.coverage_note && <div className="text-[10px] text-ink-muted">{feed.coverage_note}</div>}
       <SourceCredit credit={feed} fallbackName={feed?.name ?? a.provider}
         updated={[updated && `utility data ${updated}`, feed && `fetched ${fetchedLabel(feed.fetched_at) ?? "—"}`].filter(Boolean).join(" · ") || null} />
     </div>
@@ -163,7 +164,10 @@ export function OutageLayer({ shown }: { shown: boolean }) {
   const state = useMapOutages(map, shown);
   const areas = useMemo(() => state.data?.areas ?? [], [state.data]);
   const feeds = useMemo(() => new Map((state.data?.providers ?? []).map((p) => [p.id, p])), [state.data]);
-  const drawable = areas.filter((a) => a.lat != null && a.lon != null);
+  const drawable = useMemo(() => areas.filter((a) => a.lat != null && a.lon != null), [areas]);
+  // One icon per area per response: a fresh divIcon each render would make
+  // Leaflet rebuild every marker's DOM whenever MapView re-renders.
+  const icons = useMemo(() => new Map(drawable.map((a) => [a.id, outageIcon(a)])), [drawable]);
   const liveCount = areas.filter((a) => !a.stale && a.customers_out > 0).length;
   const staleCount = areas.filter((a) => a.stale).length;
   if (!shown) return null;
@@ -171,7 +175,7 @@ export function OutageLayer({ shown }: { shown: boolean }) {
     <>
       <OutageStatus map={map} state={state} liveCount={liveCount} staleCount={staleCount} />
       {drawable.map((a) => (
-        <Marker key={a.id} position={[a.lat!, a.lon!]} icon={outageIcon(a)} zIndexOffset={a.stale ? -100 : 100}
+        <Marker key={a.id} position={[a.lat!, a.lon!]} icon={icons.get(a.id)!} zIndexOffset={a.stale ? -100 : 100}
           title={`${countyName(a)}: ${a.stale ? "stale rows only" : `${a.customers_out.toLocaleString()} out`}`}>
           <Popup minWidth={240} maxWidth={320}>
             <OutagePopupBody a={a} feed={feeds.get(a.provider)} />
diff --git a/drb-frontend/lib/useOutages.ts b/drb-frontend/lib/useOutages.ts
index 1580762..b44d1e4 100644
--- a/drb-frontend/lib/useOutages.ts
+++ b/drb-frontend/lib/useOutages.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ function useOutageFetch(
   const seq = useRef(0);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (!getBox) { setData(null); setError(null); setLoaded(false); return; }
+    // A new target (another incident, overlay re-enabled) must not be judged
+    // against the previous target's answer: drop it and show "checking…".
+    setData(null); setError(null); setLoaded(false);
+    if (!getBox) return;
     const boxFn = getBox;
     let last = 0;
     const load = async () => {