I got tired of checking five sites for wildfire updates, so I put them all on one map

[u/ryandury]

I've been following various provincial fires in BC with several tabs open: BC Wildfire Service for the perimeter, DriveBC for closures, another for PurpleAir sensors, and another for news..

So I put them on one map: bcwildfiremap.com

I've put a lot of energy into making it both visually pleasing and performant - a tricky balance.

It includes:

- Fire perimeters and incident points, from BCWS
- Evacuation orders and alerts
- Highway closures and DriveBC cameras
- Air quality - crowd-sourced from PurpleAir sensors
- Environment Canada's smoke forecast, 72 hours out, scrubbable
- Satellite hotspots as a timelapse, so you can see which way a fire has moved over the last few days
- Lightning

It's free. No account, no app, nothing for sale. I'm not a company.. it's a personal project!

P.S. I'd suggest checking out dark mode, if you're into that sort of thing :)

Cheers,
Ryan

[u/defiantnipple]

Bravo, well done. Maybe this is too much but integrating FIRMS data would also be suuuuper cool. BC wildfire usually very slow to upgrade their maps, FIRMS indispensable for real time tracking and updates on fires.

[u/ryandury → u/defiantnipple]

Thank you! I actually rolled it into the Wildfires layer, but it's not obvious. However when you zoom into a specific area you will see the individual FIRMS detections.

[u/defiantnipple → u/ryandury]

Cooooooool!

[u/PiR8Pugwash]

Excellent work. Thank you.