Canada: Forest Fire Monitoring and Early Warning
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Fire Situation Reports on National Level
Daily Fire Situation Reports
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) provides an online fire reporting system, which provides up-to-the-minute bulletins, situation reports, and firestart and spread data for our Member Agencies and other firefighting organizations:
- Firewire online (daily real-time fire sitreps)
- Links to all Canadian Forest Fire Management Agencies
Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modeling System (Fire M3)
The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the Canadian Forest Service operate the Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modeling System (Fire M3) that automatically identifies, monitors and maps large forest fires on a daily basis using NOAA AVHRR satellite data. Automated image analysis processes are incorporated to identify active fires and format these data for use in spatially based fire behaviour models:
Weekly National Forest Fire Situation Reports
Every Friday the Canadian Forest Service provides an Updated National Forest Fire Situation Report. The website includes the number of fires by province, area burned by province, weekly fire occurrence, weekly area burned, and archived reports (starting 1998).
Fire weather and behaviour
Fire weather and behaviour outputs from the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) are incorporated to produce quantitative estimates of fire behaviour for each active fire.
Fire Situation Reports on Provincial Level
British Columbia
- Provincial Emergency Program,
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General is providing current provincially coordinated operations and fire situation reports.
- Protection Branch,
of the Ministry of Forests is giving fire information, statistics, restriction and bans and usefull background information.