diff --git a/docs/DESIGN.md b/docs/DESIGN.md
index 5683160..1119345 100644
--- a/docs/DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/DESIGN.md
@@ -423,7 +423,9 @@ The unit of the checklist. It is one full-bleed target that opens the event and
 A strip of discrete ticks 10px tall with 2px gaps, lifted from the in-game stamina meters these
 games all use. Ticks drain from the right, so what is left sits at the left edge and stacked rows
 line up into a readable ramp. Remaining ticks carry the urgency colour and its glow; spent ticks
-recede to hairline. **An unannounced end is hatched, never full.** Ticks fill in with a staggered
+recede to hairline. A running event always keeps at least one lit tick, however little of its window
+is left: an empty strip means "over", and the event with forty minutes left is the last one that
+should look over. **An unannounced end is hatched, never full.** Ticks fill in with a staggered
 scale-in animation (320ms, at most a 14ms delay per tick) unless reduced motion is requested.
 
 ### Headline deadline
diff --git a/src/client/components/Meter.tsx b/src/client/components/Meter.tsx
index 134fe71..ffd77c3 100644
--- a/src/client/components/Meter.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/Meter.tsx
@@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ interface MeterProps {
  */
 export function Meter({ progress, urgency, animate = true, label }: MeterProps) {
   const unknown = progress === null;
-  const remainingTicks = unknown
+  // Never rounds a running event down to an empty strip. Forty minutes left of
+  // a two-week event is under half a tick, and drawing it as fully spent made
+  // the most urgent rows on the page look like the ones already over.
+  const remainingTicks = unknown || progress >= 1
     ? 0
-    : Math.max(0, Math.round((1 - progress) * TICKS));
+    : Math.max(1, Math.round((1 - progress) * TICKS));
 
   return (
     <div