Here is a correction to the information posted earlier that the fire perimeter data at www.geomac.gov is real-time. It's not. I emailed the folks there and got a response back this morning (shown below) that the GIS specialist uploads the data at an unspecified interval, so the perimeter data is not real-time.
Does anyone know how to get real-time fire perimeter data - perhaps a geo-thermal heat map on-line? Are any agencies maintaining a real time perimeter that affected people can check to see where the fire is? (Thanks for the quick response Sandy.)
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Stephanie,
No, the perimeters on GeoMAC are not real time. We get them when the GIS specialist at the incident makes them available on an ftp site.
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Sandy Walters
USGS/Geography/RMGSC
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