Firesource - Live Wildfires

Fires, Air Quality, Detections

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LaunchedJun 13, 2020
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Description

Firesource’s features:
◦ Live fire feed - both on map and in scrollable menu
◦ Local and national fire incidents - news updates and reports
◦ Fire perimeters - access all realtime fire perimeters at once with information about fire growth and progress, including acreage, containment, personnel, fire cause, and fire behavior
◦ Report a fire - instantly inform other users of a nearby fire by pressing the + button, taking a picture of the fire, and submitting
◦ Air quality - see the effects of recent fires by viewing realtime air quality measurements across the country
◦ Satellite fire detections can indicate new fires and how current fires are spreading

National Fires (InciWeb, Cal Fire, IRWIN):
InciWeb is an interagency incident management system run by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. InciWeb collects wildfire incident data from several agencies across the United States and provides all of this data together in several feeds. Firesource presents wildfire incidents reported by InciWeb in real time, providing the fire’s location and detailed status. Learn more about InciWeb at their website: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/. Learn more about Cal Fire, which also provides incident information, at their website: https://www.fire.ca.gov. Learn more about IRWIN, the data hub of fire reports, at https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/WFIT/applications/IRWIN/.

National Fires (Perimeters):
Perimeter data is provided by the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group and hosted in the National Interagency Fire Center ArcGIS Online Organization (The NIFC Org). Firesource displays fire perimeters and descriptions of their progress in the ‘National Fires’ tab of the menu, with this information updated on a regular basis. Learn more about the NIFC at their website: https://www.nifc.gov

User-Reported Fires:
Allowing app users to report a fire and immediately inform other users is an essential aspect of Firesource. To report a fire, press the yellow + button in the top right corner of the map, select the type of fire (vehicle fire, forest fire, terrain fire, structure fire), take a photo of the fire, and press submit. To ensure the validity of fire reports, the user must take a photo of the fire and cannot access Camera Roll to select a picture. Please note that submitting a fire report automatically creates the report at the user’s location, to further ensure that the fire is local and valid. When viewing user-reported fires in the feed, other users can ‘rate’ the fire report by confirming that it is active, contained, or a spam reporting.

Air Quality:
Air quality measurements from across the United States are collected from AirNow.gov, which provides national air quality data using the Air Quality Index (AQI). This data is color-coded to provide information about health concerns due to PM2.5 pollutants.

Satellite-Detected Fires:
Thermal hotspot detections are displayed and collected from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), which is an instrument on the Terra and Aqua satellites. Information provided from MODIS about each detection includes brightness (brightness temperature in Kelvin of a fire pixel) and confidence (quality of fire pixel). These fire detections are extremely useful, as they can indicate new fires and fire spread. Learn more about MODIS at their website: https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov

Firesource is not affiliated with any government agencies.
Firesource is only available for iPhone and iPad in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Privacy Policy: https://firesourceapp.weebly.com/privacy-policy.html
Learn more and contact us at https://firesourceapp.weebly.com/

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Version History

Last version released 613 days ago.

1.2.5Apr 11, 2023

- UI/UX improvements
- Bug fixes

1.2.4Apr 07, 2023

- UI/UX improvements

1.2.3Aug 10, 2022

View hundreds of new local fire reports on the revitalized app interface.
- All fire perimeters are now generated automatically. The hassle of pressing fire icons to view individual perimeters has been removed
- 100s of detailed fire reports (provided by IRWIN) have been added to the app for more accurate fire mapping
- Several intuitive UI/UX adjustments

1.2.2Jun 20, 2021

- Added fire perimeters with information about acreage, containment, personnel, etc. for United States
- UI Improvements

1.2.1Dec 30, 2020

- Added Australian fires, air quality, and satellite detections
- UI Improvements

1.2.0Oct 05, 2020

- Added air quality data
- Added satellite hotspot detection (from MODIS instrument)
- Improved interface for incident and user reports

- Added satellite mode for map

1.1.1Aug 20, 2020

- Added Cal Fire incidents

1.1.0Aug 13, 2020

- Added InciWeb wildfires and crowdsourcing (user-reported) fire capabilities

LaunchedJun 13, 2020

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