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Wildfire Forecasting

  • Data Repository
This page provides download access to data that are being used to support the Pyregence project. Datasets will be posted to this page as soon as they have been vetted by the Pyregence Team.
  • Wildfire Forecasting Data
Data can be accessed from the following links:
Interactive data exploration
Fire forecasting data
Fire spread forecast data
Fire weather, fire risk, fuel, and fire detection data
Datasets that are currently used, or planned for inclusion into near-term forecast models, include:
  • Fuel and topography rasters for all static inputs required by current-generation fire spread models.
  • 5-day fire weather forecasts refreshed every 6 hours, that provide hourly meteorological inputs and fuel moisture content values necessary to drive real-time fire spread/risk forecasts.
  • 16-day forecasts of conventional National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indices.
  • Structure density raster.
  • National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) orthoimagery.
  • Real-time National Weather Service (NWS) red flag warning and fire weather watch polygons.
  • Real-time locations of ongoing large fires identified by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
  • Near real time fire progression mapping data from the National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) and GeoMAC (Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination).
  • Fire progression data for selected recent fires of historical significance in California.
  • Archived weather forecast or analysis data for the above fires of historical significance.
  • Publicly accessible maps of electricity assets and damage to electricity assets from wildfire.
Courtney Aviation Datasets
Request Data

Pyregence has available for sharing roughly 17 TB of data from test flyovers performed by Courtney Aviation on behalf of the USDA Forest Service National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) Unit and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).

The data includes:
  • Lower-res processed data
  • Raw full-res .OWI data
  • .TIF long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) orthomosaics at a good resolution (the data Courtney Aviation uses for mapping)
  • 16-bit (per band) medium resolution RGB and near-infrared (NIR) .TIF mosaics taken during the CalFire siege
  • NIROPS 16-bit LWIR mosaics for all missions
  • RGB and NIR mosaics for 20–30 missions
  • Upper Air Profiler Pilot Test
Access Data

The upper-air pilot study was designed to determine whether upper-air wind data can be used to improve short-term (up to 15 hours) and very-short-term (0–3 hours) wind forecasts. The project team deployed an Atmospheric Systems Corporation (ASC) Model 2000 sodar system near Cobb Mountain in northern California and explored the potential to integrate the collected data into next-generation fire models and data management systems currently used by utilities for routine operations. To meet these objectives, Pyregence researchers will leverage and augment existing meteorological networks with upper-air wind measurements and provide data for use in meteorological models and other data management systems currently used by utilities.