diff --git a/components/report/DateTimeline.tsx b/components/report/DateTimeline.tsx
index 14e5299..a538175 100644
--- a/components/report/DateTimeline.tsx
+++ b/components/report/DateTimeline.tsx
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ import { formatShortDate } from "./FieldHistory";
 
 /**
  * Date-grouped timeline strip at the top of the report. Walks every
- * date-type field across all stage sections (0–5), pulls each field's
- * most-recent entered date, and plots events into six horizontal swim
- * lanes — one per stage. Stage 5's `Date_Opened` gets visual emphasis
- * as the journey's anchor at the right end of the time axis. A faint
- * "Today" tick anchors the reader if today falls within the range, and
- * an adaptive month/year axis runs beneath the lanes. Each dot exposes
- * a tooltip on hover or keyboard focus.
+ * date-type field across stage sections 1–5, pulls each field's
+ * most-recent entered date, and plots events into five horizontal swim
+ * lanes — one per stage, Stage 5 on top down to Stage 1 at the bottom.
+ * Stage 5's `Date_Opened` gets visual emphasis as the journey's anchor
+ * at the right end of the time axis. A faint "Today" tick anchors the
+ * reader if today falls within the range, and an adaptive month/year
+ * axis runs beneath the lanes. Each dot exposes a tooltip on hover or
+ * keyboard focus.
  */
 export function DateTimeline({
   sections,
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ export function DateTimeline({
   };
   const events: Event[] = [];
   for (const section of sections) {
-    if (section.rank < 0 || section.rank > 5) continue;
+    if (section.rank < 1 || section.rank > 5) continue;
     for (const f of section.fields) {
       if (f.type !== "date") continue;
       const history = fieldHistory[f.name];
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ export function DateTimeline({
         </p>
       </div>
       <ol className="mt-4 space-y-2">
-        {[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map((rank) => {
+        {[5, 4, 3, 2, 1].map((rank) => {
           const rowEvents = events.filter((e) => e.rank === rank);
           const isEmpty = rowEvents.length === 0;
           return (
diff --git a/components/report/MembershipChart.tsx b/components/report/MembershipChart.tsx
index 1aae037..beff998 100644
--- a/components/report/MembershipChart.tsx
+++ b/components/report/MembershipChart.tsx
@@ -281,11 +281,14 @@ export function MembershipChart({
           />
         ))}
 
-        {/* Most-recent point value labels */}
+        {/* Most-recent point value labels. Both anchor to the chart's right
+            edge so the carry-forward endpoint label stays inside the viewBox
+            instead of overflowing past the right padding. */}
         {actualCoords.length > 0 && (
           <text
-            x={actualCoords[actualCoords.length - 1].x + 6}
+            x={xOf(maxT) - 4}
             y={actualCoords[actualCoords.length - 1].y - 6}
+            textAnchor="end"
             className="fill-leaf-800 text-[10px] font-medium tabular-nums"
           >
             {numberFmt.format(actualCoords[actualCoords.length - 1].v)}