Is-it-on-fire community driven map?

November 15, 2008 11:37 PM

With regards to the recent LA/Orange County fires: has anyone done a Is-it-on-fire? web site similar to what the USGS has done with their Did-you-feel-it? earthquake intensity reporting site?

Looking for something similar to fire maps from OC Register; or LA Times, that show both areas currently under danger, as well as evacuation areas, but driven by real-time community input.

posted by jaimev to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

There's this google map from fire.ca.gov...it's not great.
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:46 PM on November 15, 2008

MODIS Active fire mapping. It's computer generated based on processing of IR satellite photos.

As I post this, here's the latest map of California.

But it only shows fires, not things like evacuations.
posted by Class Goat at 12:21 AM on November 16, 2008

Try this one for Orange County and Los Angeles. This one for Santa Barbara.
posted by jvilter at 12:25 AM on November 16, 2008

There is also www.iscaliforniaonfire.com. This site is less than helpful from any sort of real data standpoint but my boyfriend thinks it is hilarious. Me, less so since my parents and grandparents recently had to evacuate from the Montecito/Santa Barbara fire (luckily both of their houses were spared) but if it wasn't my hometown on fire, I would probably find it amusing.
posted by magnetsphere at 9:52 AM on November 17, 2008