Saturday 22 November 2025 · below the Index · spike
Container ship fire at Port of Los Angeles
An electrical fire broke out aboard the ONE Henry Hudson, a container ship, at the Port of Los Angeles on November 22, 2025. The fire triggered a major emergency response and shelter-in-place orders. The fire was nearly contained by November 23 and crews prepared for cargo offload.
Peak 96.7 on Saturday 22 November 2025. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Mixed, both over the window and on the peak day. Mixed means no single signal dominated — the attention was spread across search, research, news and social.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 85% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Tuesday 27 May 2025.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Readers here means readers of the Wikipedia article on each vessel type — the same source as the Research signal, not news coverage — so an incident can dominate the news without moving this panel. Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: human drama. Trade press was 1% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 90% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor.
How the coverage sounded
Coverage ran 91% negative overall; 2% strongly so.
Each article is scored on a five-step scale from strongly negative to strongly positive; the bar is the share of coverage at each step.
Maritime Attention Index, incident: Container ship fire at Port of Los Angeles, peak 96.7 on 22 November 2025. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2025-container-ship-fire-at-port-of-los-angeles/