Mapping Wildfires

Skills Demonstrated
  • Data Scraping
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Visualization (mapping)
  • API Creation
  • API Calls
  • SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • JSON

Active Wildfires in the US Last updated: 10/5/2020

Data Source:

Incident Information System XML Feed (inciweb.nwcg.gov/feeds/rss/incidents/) maintained by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (nwcg.gov)

Map Features:

Click to Zoom

Click on a fire marker to zoom into that fire's location and view details

View Details

Clicking on a marker will display the fire's name, size and location, as well as a link to the full details on NWCG's incident website.

Size Depiction

The yellow circle resizes based on the map zoom level, and accurately represents ammount of land that is currently affected by this fire.

Filter by Cause

Clicking on map controls will filter out fire markers depending on cause.