Dashboard
Wildfire pulse — daily fire, drought, and human impact
A daily ETL fuses FIRMS hotspots, NIFC incidents and situation reports, NWS red-flag warnings, drought status, and Census demographics — so fire activity is always shown over the people beneath it.
Updated daily (per-source status shown in each snapshot)
Wildfire pulse — daily fire, drought, and human impact
Open full screen ↗The pipeline behind this dashboard runs once a day, writes an immutable
dated snapshot, and republishes — the date selector replays any past day of
the season. Every fire and hotspot is point-in-polygon joined to its Census
county, so the human-impact panel can rank affected counties by population,
housing, poverty, and median age, flagging elevated-vulnerability counties.
It currently runs in labeled sample mode; the live NASA FIRMS, NWS,
NIFC/WFIGS, Drought Monitor, and Census integrations are implemented and
activate by dropping API keys into the ETL’s .env (see the repository
README). Per-source fetch status ships inside every snapshot, so a failed
feed is visible rather than silent. As with every prototype on this site:
not an operational tool, never for evacuation or suppression decisions.