{"id":1809064,"date":"2022-09-16T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809064"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:54:28","slug":"wildfire-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/wildfire-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wildfire Aware<\/a> is an interactive map of wildfires in the United States that lists fires by the number of personnel fighting them. Selecting a fire brings up a lot more information, drawn on 22 layers from Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a>. [ArcGIS Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wildfire Aware is an interactive map of wildfires in the United States that lists fires by the number of personnel fighting them. Selecting a fire brings up a lot more information, drawn on 22 layers… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,8],"tags":[158,487],"class_list":["post-1809064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-disasters","category-weather-and-climate","tag-usa","tag-wildfires","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789514,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/california-wildfires-mapping-the-bigger-picture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809064,"position":0},"title":"California Wildfires: Mapping the Bigger Picture","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Two maps: John Nelson\u2019s 100 Years of Wildfire is a static map showing a century of California wildfires, simplified into zones of 100 square miles. 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