Track, manage, and suppress wildland fires with real-time data
Locate and respond to incidents
Situational awareness is key to responding to emergencies. ArcGIS software uses real-time location data to help those in charge monitor situations, allowing for prompt updates and smart decisions that safeguard people and property. This location intelligence from powerful mapping and spatial analytics enables teams to monitor changes and act immediately as situations arise.
Suppress wildland fires with location intelligence
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Suppress and manage wildland fires
When a fire breaks out, knowing its exact location is crucial. GIS is used to plot the fire location; identify potential effects on people, critical infrastructure, and the landscape; and determine property ownership in impacted areas. Decision-makers can also compare past and current wildland fire footprints and identify natural barriers to inform response efforts.
Streamline incident management in the field
Using GIS, fire staff can manage and deploy resources to efficiently respond to wildfires. Viewing real-time locations of fire suppression and support assets enables a quicker response. In the field, mobile data collection provides a real-time common operating picture for responders and helps agencies track firefighter locations.
Monitor and react to real-time information
Situational awareness is crucial for effective response operations. Real-time location-based solutions enable commanders to monitor changes, brief staff and the public, and make informed decisions that save lives. ArcGIS software provides powerful mapping and analytics capabilities, giving firefighters an overview of ongoing events.
Inform the public in real time
Provide vital information—such as road closures, evacuation zones, and shelters—to the public, affected residents, and other stakeholders using GIS. Esri's technology also aids authoritative public communication with visual data, storytelling tools, and powerful, detailed digital maps designed to scale when the public and media need them most.
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#FireMappers monitor quickly spreading wildfires
Volunteers fill in data gaps about new fires and changing fire perimeters and connect fire locations on a map to authoritative resources.
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Maps: Ten most destructive California wildfires
Animated maps show the impacts of devastating fires.
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Arcade extracts meaning from satellite data
Explore different ways of symbolizing wildfire detections using ArcGIS Arcade and the NASA VIIRS layer available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
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Wildfire and weather map for public information
New ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World layers improve wildland fire response and situational awareness.
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Improve your wildfire maps with these new layers
Resources in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World help you answer questions like, Where is the fire, what is the current size, and where is it going?
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The Ferguson Fire—GIS for resource advising
During the Ferguson Fire, staff used GIS for fire incident and resource management.
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Conservation solutions
Emergency Management Operations
Helps you identify potential threats, defines the area affected, and quickly determines the impact to population, facilities, and infrastructure.
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Fire Incident Dashboard
Visualize fire and EMS incidents sourced from dispatch or records management systems and monitor associated response times.
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Road Closures
Road Closures can be used to maintain an inventory of road closures and communicate closures and detours to travelers.
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Know Your Zone
Delivers a set of capabilities that help you share evacuation zones and promote current evacuation instructions when an order is issued.
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Shelter Locator
Help you share shelter locations and promote the current operating status of shelters when an incident or event occurs.