California and U.S. Wildfire Resources (Incl. Near Real-Time Information)
California Resources
Current Fire Incidents (via Cal Fire)
California Office of Emergency Services (OES) News
Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
California Interagency Mobilization Guide 2020
California First Responder Live Audio Streams
National Resources
InciWeb (Incident Information System, National)
UPDATED DAILY: 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.
NOAA Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product
Maps and Data
U.S. Wildfire and Weather Information Map (via ESRI)
Statistics (via NFIC)
Historical Wildland Fire Information
- Suppression Costs (1985-2019)
- Historically Significant Wildland Fires
- 100,000-acre Fires 100,000+ acres)
- Human-Caused Fires And Acres
- Lightning-caused fires and acres
- Prescribed Fires (1998-2019)
- Wildland Fires and Acres (1960-2019)
- Wildland Fire Use Fires (1998-2008)
Reference Manuals
2020 National Interagency Mobilization Guide
99 Pages; PDF
Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book)
Filed under: Data Files, Management and Leadership, Maps, News
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.