U.S. Wildfire Maps

On Lord's Day I reported on 2 useful maps for helping to proceed rail of the spread of wildfires this summer. The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker is mapping too providing information on the wildfires currently burning across California. You tin toilet every bit good thought information close wildfires within too exterior of California on the US Wildfire Activity Public Information Map.

Esri has instantly every bit good released an interactive map to rail the raging fires across the USA too to supply context to the severity of the California fires. If yous choose a strength out indicated on the USA Wildfire map yous tin toilet thought information close the chosen fire, including the outset date, containment too links to the latest tidings too social information. Esri's map every bit good includes an NWS animated smoke direct a opportunity forecast, this layer is visualized to correspond the smoke output of a fire.

The fires too strength out perimeters on the map come upward from GeoMAC, a mapping application designed to supply strength out managers alongside access to online maps of electrical current strength out locations too perimeters. GeoMAC members include the USGS, National Interagency Fire Center, National Weather Service too Bureau of Land Management, Remote Sensing Application Center, Bureau of Land Management, National Geophysical Data Center. The information is updated manually based on information from a host of sources including those on the ground. It is of import to greenback that the map is non up-dated inward real-time too the strength out perimeters are solely a guide.