Soon after the database loaded into QGIS, we got our first glimpse at our map as all of our perimeters populated into a basic shape of California. He also pointed out another interesting fact that helped us make this map accurate. Maps The Research Center houses a large collection of printed and manuscript maps, including historical U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps, initial township plats and homesteads of the U.S. Surveyor General, Sanborn Fire Insurance, railroad right‑of‑way, and mining maps. In Northern California, the fires were mostly started by lightning. Burned through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada and its surrounding area from 14 May 2011 through 16 May 2011. learned from last year's record fire season - CBC News", "Worst forest fires in 30 years cost N.W.T. The largest fire in Arizona state history. TODAY'S AIR Today's Air is a Montana specific site that provides information on hourly levels of fine particulate matter (also known as PM2.5, the main pollutant of concern in wildfire smoke) across the state. Thanks and a tip of the hat go out to Kelly. This wildfire damaged 6.k HA of forest in 10 hours. Started September 2020 S of Salt Lake City. The information comes from InciWeb, so some fires may not be represented here. After we cut the file size down, the real cleaning work took place. The Basin Complex and Gap fire were the highest priority fires in the state at this time. “It is a one-story, rectangular log structure with new corrugated metal on a gable roof, a metal stove pipe, and nine log purlins. But he’s also challenging us to see conservation through a child’s eyes…, Noah’s father, Michael, is a prolific photographer, as is his wife who is a wedding photographer. To allow users to filter the fires by year, we created a simple slider and used MapBox’s setFilter function to display fires from the selected year. Once we had decided on our colors and coded a home for the map, it was time to launch. Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area of interest. Contact us. Some of the announcements are only open for a very brief time. The work is slow going as we research and add this information to the more than 20,000 fires included in our data set, but we’re hoping to get that update to the map published in the next couple of months. 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With science under attack in recent years, it is heart warming to know that some federal employees in Missoula have our backs. The 1983 Forest Fire burned 25.000 ha of forest land and killed 239 people. We have featured Michael’s fire pictures a couple of times on Wildfire Today, HERE and HERE. Our last challenge was deciding on a color scheme for the map. Clearly 2020, is a year we need to study. After a lot more Google searching, we figured out it worked best in MapBox to export the data as a Shapefile using the Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) projection, which fixed the Null Island issue. [19], Check out the US fire map at https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/ for more information, Cause: drought, high winds, lightning. Before coming to CapRadio, Emily worked as a video producer at the Sacramento Bee. We also learned that we needed to run the data through MapBox’s Tippecanoe program to further decrease the file size and fix the zoom issue. 40% contained 10/14/2020. (Applause.) Source is an OpenNews project designed to amplify the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it. In one 24-hour burn period (6/6-6/7), it consumed 77769 acres of forest land. Started October 2020. Many firefighters have used the devices successfully, but others have been killed inside them. We use NPR’s app template for our build system, which simplifies the development process for us and deploys directly to s3. Have a wildland fire news tip? It was so exciting to bring a project to light that we knew our audience was looking for. Worst fire season in province's history. The response to the map has been amazing, and we’ve even had people reaching out to us asking about a print version of the map, which we’re currently exploring (a new task for each of us). Learn more about the project or contribute your work. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center Wildfire Map. It exhibited extreme fire behavior Saturday when the passage of a cold front brought sustained winds of 10-20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.