{"id":1835764,"date":"2025-01-08T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835764"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:37:05","slug":"california-wildfires-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/california-wildfires-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"California Wildfires, January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>California\u2019s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/Incidents\">incident pages<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2025\/1\/7\/eaton-fire\">Eaton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2025\/1\/7\/hurst-fire\">Hurst<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2025\/1\/7\/palisades-fire\">Palisades<\/a> fires, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents.html\">this 3D incident map<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/wildfires-map\/\">The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> map<\/a> marks fire origins and evacuation zones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/app.watchduty.org\">Watch Duty<\/a> is a nonprofit that also has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchduty.org\">app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Update, 3:50 PM EST (via <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tierneymaps.bsky.social\/post\/3lfarja6xu22t\">Lauren Tierney<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/wildfireaware\/#ext=-118.349,34.113,11,loc=\">Esri\u2019s Wildlife Aware map<\/a> sorts fires by personnel assigned to fight them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/webscene\/viewer.html?webscene=0a7381c8b46b4e26a057383424f32c06\">Another 3D map<\/a> from CAL FIRE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Update, 10 Jan at 1:45 PM EST:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CNN has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/08\/us\/maps-visuals-los-angeles-wildfires-dg\/index.html\">maps and other visualizations<\/a>, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/10\/weather\/before-after-images-los-angeles-fires\/index.html\">before-and-after satellite and aerial photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Update, 13 Jan at 9:35 PM EST:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geospatial.money\/p\/good-maps-of-the-la-fires\">Good Maps of the L.A. Fires<\/a>: \u201ca summary of the geospatial industry\u2019s efforts to map and analyse the L.A. fires over the past 5 days.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/geospatial.money\/post\/3lfllitkkds2i\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles: Update, 3:50 PM EST (via Lauren Tierney): Update, 10 Jan at 1:45 PM EST: Update, 13 Jan at 9:35 PM EST:<\/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":[323,775,487],"class_list":["post-1835764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-disasters","category-weather-and-climate","tag-california","tag-fires","tag-wildfires","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15963,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/how-to-build-a-fire-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":0},"title":"How to Build a Fire Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Last October Robin Kraft posted an online map of the northern California wildfires showing satellite imagery from before and after the fires (see previous entry); today he's posted a blog entry explaining how he built it, in great technical detail. The timing is not accidental: \"There is another fire raging\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1786074,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/mapping-the-northern-california-wildfires-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":1},"title":"Mapping the Northern California Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post maps the largest of the wildfires burning in northern California: the Carr Fire threatening the city of Redding and surrounding communities. The Redding Record Searchlight has drone footage of the destruction wreaked by the Carr Fire in Shasta County. NASA has natural and false-colour imagery (Earth Observatory,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wapost-carr-fire-1024x632.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wapost-carr-fire-1024x632.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wapost-carr-fire-1024x632.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wapost-carr-fire-1024x632.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789160,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/california-wildfires-2020-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":2},"title":"California Wildfires, 2020 Edition","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 August 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Wildfire status tracking. The California Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services posts a daily map showing the status of active wildfires in the state. It\u2019s basically a one-page PDF you can print and hand out: decidedly old school and not remotely interactive. The New York Times has a series of maps\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/noaa-hrrr-20200824-1024x715.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/noaa-hrrr-20200824-1024x715.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/noaa-hrrr-20200824-1024x715.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/noaa-hrrr-20200824-1024x715.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786720,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/california-wildfire-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":3},"title":"California Wildfire Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s 2018 California Fire Tracker is an interactive map of ongoing and contained wildfires\u2014notably, at this moment, the Camp and Woolsey fires. It includes fire perimeter and air quality data. (Note: it's glitchy on desktop Safari.) Two Esri maps: a general wildfire map and a map of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789514,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/california-wildfires-mapping-the-bigger-picture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":4},"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. The map measures the cumulative burn area for each zone over that entire time: this can exceed 100 or even 200 percent if large fires\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"100 Years of Wildfire (John Nelson)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nelson-100-years-ca-wildfires-169x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5222,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/mapping-the-northern-california-wildfires\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835764,"position":5},"title":"Mapping the Northern California Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Maps and satellite imagery of the wildfires in Northern California include the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s interactive map; Robin Kraft's interactive map \u00a0showing satellite imagery from before and after the fire; this New York Times page mapping building damage in Santa Rosa; the\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s coverage of the devastation; and NASA Earth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NASA Earth Observatory","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835895,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835764\/revisions\/1835895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}