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firealertmap.com

A map showing active wildfire locations, red flag warnings, fire weather watch, severe fire danger index overlay and jurisdictional boundaries.

The purpose of firealertmap.com is to gather data from various sources to provide a map showing current fire conditions and related environmental information to aid users in gaining an understanding of the current environmental conditions to support vegetation management and wildfire prevention and suppression.

With help from vegetation management and utility tree industry professionals, I put together this website to provide this data needed to carry out their work safely in the field especially in high fire danger areas.

The website is formatted for use in the field (mobile) and the office (desktop) and it has the capability to be downloaded to PDF for offline reference for 3 specific areas in California.


Platform

  • AWS virtual machine
  • Linux Ubuntu OS
  • Nginx (website) web server
  • Tomcat (Geoserver) web server
  • Geoserver map server
  • PostgreSQL / PostGIS RDMS

Website

  • HTML 5
  • JavaScript / Leaflet / Bootstrap / jQuery
  • Python used to create pdf version of map every hour

Repos

Map Sources

Layer Source
  • World Topo Map
  • World Transportation (Roads)
  • World Boundaries and Places
ESRI
  • Fire Severity Layer
Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS)
  • US Counties and States
US Census Bureau
  • Forest Boundaries
  • New Fire Starts - Last 24 hours
  • Fire Locations
  • Current Fire Perimeters
USDA / USFS
  • Responsibility Areas: State, Local, Federal
  • CalFire Active Fires
CalFire
  • Red Flag Warning
  • Fire Weather Watch
NOAA / NWS
  • National Park and Recreation Area Boundaries
NPS