Wildfire status tracking.The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services postsa daily map showing the status of active wildfires in the state. It’s basically a one-page PDF you can print and hand out: decidedly old school and not remotely interactive. TheNew York Timeshasa series of ...
Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles: California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) hasincident pagesfor theEaton,HurstandPalisadesfires, plusthis 3D incident map. TheLos Angeles Timesmapmarks fire origins and evacuation zones. ...
Large wildfires are an increasingly frequent phenomenon around the globe (Tedim et al.2018; Linley et al.2022). The 2017 and 2022 wildfire seasons are examples of this trend (Nature,2017; Rodrigues et al.2023). In 2017, a total of 622,000 ha burned in Chile, Russia, the USA, Canada,...
While we don’t always have the capacity to respond to current climate events, the wildfires in Canada this past summer were historic. I worked quickly to analyze, map, and chart the historically burned areas in Canada to illustrate how this summer’s wildfires were exponentially larger and occ...
Avenza Maps is an award-winning offline mapping app used by professionals on a daily basis for search and rescue, to support humanitarian efforts, to fight wildfires and industries operating in remote areas or where offline maps are a necessity. Avenza Maps is also used as a teaching tool in...
RELATED:Wildfires burn 78,000 hectares across B.C. Johnston, who works at tech companyEchosecsaid that the idea was born out struggling to make sense of all the different information on fires and road closures. “I grew up in Soda Creek, and had just checked the latest information on[the...
Mapping Climate Risk in the United States Published on29 September 202029 September 2020byJonathan Crowe The New York Times (screenshot) Climate change isn’t just one thing: rising temperatures, or sea level rise. It’s also changes to rainfall, increased risk of wildfires, more powerful hurric...
British Columbia isn’t having a very good year either, forest fire wise. For maps of the wildfires burning in the province, seethe B.C. Wildfire Service’s interactive map, which shows active wildfires, fire perimeters, and evacuation areas. Evacuation maps are frequently tweeted byEmergency In...
Wildfires happen every 20-200 years, which clears the canopy and allows light to peak through, which in turn allows the before mentioned plants to flourish, among others. Boreal forests support a small range of animals, oddly enough this includes a few amphibians who are able to handle the ...
As of Thursday morning, B.C. has 383 active wildfires, more than 200 of which are considered out of control. Wildfires in the province were concentrated in northeastern B.C. but have “really begun to ramp up” in central B.C. over the past few weeks, Macnab said. According to BC Wi...