New U.S. Wildfire Maps


On Dominicus I reported on 2 useful maps for helping to choke on rail of the spread of wildfires this summer. The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker is mapping in addition to providing information on the wildfires currently burning across California. You tin too persuasion information almost wildfires within in addition to exterior of California on the US Wildfire Activity Public Information Map.

Esri has instantly too released an interactive map to rail the raging fires across the the States in addition to to furnish context to the severity of the California fires. If you lot conduct a lav indicated on the USA Wildfire map you lot tin persuasion information almost the chosen fire, including the kickoff date, containment in addition to links to the latest intelligence in addition to social information. Esri's map too includes an NWS animated smoke opportunity forecast, this layer is visualized to stand upward for the smoke output of a fire.

The fires in addition to lav perimeters on the map come upward from GeoMAC, a mapping application designed to furnish lav managers amongst access to online maps of electrical flow lav locations in addition to perimeters. GeoMAC members include the USGS, National Interagency Fire Center, National Weather Service in addition to 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 regime annotation that the map is non up-dated inward real-time in addition to the lav perimeters are solely a guide.
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