Wildfire Info

Wildfire Info

CAL FIRE, InciWeb, MODIS & VIIRS thermal satellite, WFIGS perimeters, CHP & more

App info


3.0.1
July 29, 2024
79,826
Android 4.4+
Everyone
Get Wildfire Info for Free on Google Play

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App description


Android App Analysis and Review: Wildfire Info, Developed by David Gross Apps. Listed in Weather Category. Current Version Is 3.0.1, Updated On 29/07/2024 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Wildfire Info. Achieved Over 80 thousand Installs. Wildfire Info Currently Has 200 Reviews, Average Rating 3.9 Stars

Disclaimer: This unofficial app does not represent any government agency and is not affiliated with any government agency. The sources of the data are the publicly accessible sources listed below.

Browse current wildfire and prescribed burn activity throughout all of the world.

Active Wildfire Perimeter data from NIFC WFIGS. Tagged by state, search by name, and filter by acres burned. WFIGS stands for the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group. NIFC stands for the National Interagency Fire Center. NIFC WFIGS Source URLs: https://www.nifc.gov/ with data hosted at https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nifc::wfigs-current-interagency-fire-perimeters/about

NASA MODIS and VIIRS satellite instruments data: Thermal hotspot maps by region show wildfire activity in the past 48 hours. See hotspot info including fire radiance power, brightness temperature, and confidence. NASA MODIS/VIIRS Source URL: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/ . MODIS stands for Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. VIIRS stands for Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite.

InciWeb & CAL FIRE active fire maps: hot-link to the corresponding official incident webpage. Inciweb Source URL: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/ , CAL FIRE Source URL: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

CHP (California Highway Patrol): Incidents in the past 3 hours related to fires are filtered out separately, all traffic incidents are included viewable by last 1 or 3 hours.CHP Source URL: https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx

NESDIS GOES 16/17 Satellite Animations show wildfire smoke plumes, drought conditions, etc. from the satellite's perspective. NESDIS GOES Source URL: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov. NESDIS stands for National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. GOES stands for
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.

Links to current hyper-local weather summary conditions from NWS, NOAA, Government of Canada, and Government of Australia: including temperature, wind and gust conditions, and local forecasts anywhere in the USA, Canada, or Australia at your centered map location. NWS/NOAA Source URL: https://forecast.weather.gov/, Government of Canada Weather Source URL: https://weather.gc.ca/, Government of Australia Weather Source URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/

Wildfire Situation Reports section with mirrored PDFs from NIFC. NIFC Source URL: https://www.nifc.gov

Pull up the Google Maps app for an area with the embedded deep links.

There is a section for wildfire-related US government Twitter accounts viewable by map by approximate location or sorted into national and state sources in a table view. Twitter Source URLs: https://twitter.com

Information is posted as soon as it becomes available from WFIGS, NIFC, NASA, InciWeb, CAL FIRE, CHP, NESDIS, NOAA, NWS, Government of Canada, and Government of Australia.

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We are currently offering version 3.0.1. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

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What's New


- Updated Google Maps
- Removed Air Quality sections
- Removed Lightning mapping in NESDIS section
- Removed some Situation Reports
- Updated the app's minimum Android SDK version from 19 to 21. The app's target Android SDK Version remains at 34.

Rate and review on Google Play store


3.9
200 total
5 61.0
4 11.8
3 6.7
2 3.6
1 16.9

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

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Linda Chicago

Great app! Exactly what I was looking for! To be able to monitor wildfire, air quality and weather forecasts all in one app! Thank you! Oh, it would be great if you could add in AZ Highway Patrol like you have it for CA, but I can find that elsewhere. Would be nice, though. Love that your app works very quickly unlike many websites on these topics which are often very slow.

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Kalia Kliban

I'd give the app a lot more stars if it didn't shut down almost every time I try to look at anything. Doesn't seem to matter which modality I select, the app stops working. When it _does_ work, it's very handy, but I can't rely on it and that's a deal breaker. I'll keep it installed for a while but will be shopping for a different app in the meantime.

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Sophi Martin

I wanted to like this. It has good source data, but it's all disaggregated across a bunch of menus. Too difficult to navigate and I don't know where to find different parts. I'd love to have an app that just has one map with layers that show perimeters, evacuation zones, containment info, etc. This unfortunately doesn't have that.

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Margie DeMoss

I've used the app for 2 to 3 years with no complaints. This morning, I clicked on a fire with no issues. All subsequent clicks failed with an error message stating that the app has a bug, clear cache. I did this, uninstalled/reinstalled with no success.

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JarOCats

Big points for mapping fires where all other apps have failed. Unfortunately, navigation is a mess; only pressing buttons randomly turned up the info I needed. What I really need are 1) notifications and 2) active fire perimeters.

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S D

Update: The perimeter is a feature that doesn't contain all active fires and can takes DAYS to show an active fire, which renders it useless to me. Currently, the IRWIN screen doesn't even show the "Sites Fire" which is an active fire in CA of 1,000+ acres. So I can't tap on it to see a perimeter. Again... USELESS. This is a honest review. I'm sorry if the the app dev doesn't appreciate honesty.

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moo kau

Looks like this app has stopped working. The cal fire tab shows no fires even though there are currently active fires on the cal fire website. App crashes when I click on any details. Sorry to see this app go down but it doesn't work anymore.

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Barbara McCallon

I HAD InciWeb app when I had an iPhone and found it so helpful since I have 2 homes both in red flag areas. I was disappointed that I couldn't find that app on android. So all week I have had so much trouble dealing with the Bobcat fire, are we supposed to evacuate or not, not many updates, confusing. Decided to open this app and right there before my eyes was InciWeb. Now I will always be up to date. I haven't checked yet to see if it covers Flagstaff but surely hope so..