Fire Data Sources

Many sources of weather, terrain, and fuel data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites, many in the form of files viewable in Google Earth. Fire ignition tim/location data and imagery of fire extent at later times for specific incidents is still generally in the form of custom datasets where research or suppression teams were available to collect it.

Fuel Maps

• LandFire http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov

10-hr Dead Fuel Moisture

• Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/ discontinued
• MesoPy access to http://api.mesowest.net/v2/

Live Fuel Moisture

• http://wfas.net based on NVDI data

Fire Ignition Time and Location Data

• Custom

Fire Perimeters

• Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GEOMAC) http://www.geomac.gov/
• Incident Information System http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

Fire Detection

• Firemapper http://firemapper.sc.egov.usda.gov/activefiremaps.php
• Latest MODIS from Forest Service http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_latest_AFM_bundle.kml
• Modis raw data ftp://152.61.133.5/MOLT/MOD14.005 Tera, ftp://152.61.133.5/MOLA/MOD14.005 Aqua satelite

Fire Location and Intensity Data

• Satellite fire detection from FireMapper by the NASA Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and VIIRS
• VIIRS products

See Also

• Weather Data Sources