Reference: California Wildfires (Near Real-Time Information and Audio Streams)
UPDATED November 20, 2018
Updated NASA Damage Map of Camp Fire from Space (via Jet Propulsion Lab)
UPDATED NOVEMBER 10, 2018
California First Responder Live Audio Streams
California Resources
Current Fire Incidents (via Cal Fire)
California Office of Emergency Services (OES) News
Additional Twitter Streams
Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
California Interagency Mobilization Guide 2018
Imagery
Plumes of Smoke Cover Portions of Northern California (via NOAA)
NASA’s ARIA Maps California Wildfires from Space (via JPL/NASA)
Additional Resources
InciWeb (Incident Information System, National)
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 (1985-2017)
- Historically Significant Wildland Fires
- 1997-2017 large fires (100,000+ acres)
- Human-Caused Fires And Acres
- Lightning-caused fires and acres
- Prescribed Fires (1998-2017)
- Wildland Fires and Acres (1960-2017)
- 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
2018 National Interagency Mobilization Guide (138 Pages; PDF)
Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book)
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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.