To sum it all up, it looks slick!
“Esri has released Wildfire Aware (https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wildfireware/), a new interactive mapping app that tracks wildfires across the US and reports on their impacts to people, property, and the natural environment.
“The app curates more than 20 layers of data from federal agencies and other authoritative sources (such as wildfire points from Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN), wildfire perimeters from National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), critical habitat from US Fish and Wildlife Service, air quality from Environmental Protection Agency, etc.) and symbolizes fires based on the number of personnel assigned to them. You can click a fire on the map for more information or browse current fires from picklists sorted by ignition date, incident name, and fire size. The app also enables you to toggle on additional views such as current and forecasted air quality, thermal hot spots, recently burned areas, population density, and more.
“When you click a fire, the app zooms to that location and reports key statistics about the fire such as start date, days burning, personnel assigned, acreage burned, and percent contained. You can also explore information related to current and forecasted weather, population within the fire perimeter (including breakdowns of vulnerable populations who may be disabled or lack access to a vehicle), housing within the fire perimeter (including total number of housing units and median housing value), and ecological and environmental characteristics within the perimeter (including landcover, predominant forest type groups, historical wildfire hazard potential, potential carbon loss, biodiversity impact, and any protected/imperiled habitats, species, or areas).
“If you click outside a fire point or perimeter, you can access similar information for a 2-mile radius around that location. This is particularly useful for estimating the potential impacts of a wildfire as it advances towards more populated areas.
“The map itself is also designed to communicate key information related to fires as you zoom in. At a national or regional scale, the map shows wildfire locations overlaid on a basemap of forested areas of the US. As you zoom in, the basemap blends aerial imagery with terrain data so you can better understand the topography of an area where fires are burning. Zooming in even further reveals white building footprints of structures in an area.
“You can find more details about the Wildfire Aware App in this blog post: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/public-safety/wildfire-aware.”
