Resources For Near Real-Time Wildfire Reports, Maps, and Historical Statistics
UPDATE May 2016
Canada: Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (via Natural Resources Canada ||| Interactive Map
Canada: Canadian National Fire Database
Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product (via NOAA)
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Reports
InciWeb (Incident Information System)
Large Fire Incidents Map (via USDA Fire Service)
Incident Management Situation Report (via National Interagency Fire Information Center)
National Fire News (via National Interagency Fire Information Center)
This report is updated Monday-Friday.
Statistics (via NFIC)
Historical Wildland Fire Information
- Suppression Costs (1985-2014)
- Historically significant wildland fires
- 1997-2014 large fires (100,000+ acres)
- Human-caused fires and acres (2001-2013)
- Lightning-caused fires and acres (2001-2013)
- Prescribed fires (1998-2014)
- Wildland fires and acres (1960-2014)
- Wildland fire use fires (1998-2008)
Historical year-end fire statistics by state (via NICC)
2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
Wildland Fire Summaries (source NICC)
2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
Reference Manuals
National Interagency Mobilization Guide (138 Pages; PDF)
Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book)
Wildland Fire and Aviation Program Management Operations Guide (Blue Book)
Filed under: Management and Leadership, Maps, News, Reports
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.