This layer presents the best-known point and perimeter locations of wildfire occurrences within the United States over the past 7 days. Points mark a location within the wildfire area and provide current information about that wildfire. Perimeters are the line surrounding land that has been impacted by a wildfire.
Consumption Best Practices:
- As a service that is subject to very high usage, ensure
peak performance and accessibility of your maps and apps by avoiding the
use of non-cacheable relative Date/Time field filters. To accommodate
filtering events by Date/Time, we suggest using the included "Age"
fields that maintain the number of days or hours since a record was
created or last modified, compared to the last service update. These
queries fully support the ability to cache a response, allowing common
query results to be efficiently provided to users in a high demand
service environment.
- When ingesting this service in your applications, avoid using POST
requests whenever possible. These requests can compromise performance
and scalability during periods of high usage because they too are not
cacheable.
Current Incidents: This layer provides a near real-time view of the data being shared through the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) service. IRWIN provides data exchange capabilities between participating wildfire systems, including federal, state and local agencies. Data is synchronized across participating organizations to make sure the most current information is available. The display of the points are based on the
NWCG Fire Size Classification applied to the daily acres attribute.
Current Perimeters: This layer displays fire perimeters posted to the National Incident Feature Service. It is updated from operational data and may not reflect current conditions on the ground. For a better understanding of the workflows involved in mapping and sharing fire perimeter data, see the
National Wildfire Coordinating Group Standards for Geospatial Operations.
- Events modified in the last 7 days
- Events that are not given a Fire Out Date
- Incident Type Kind: Fires
- Incident Type Category: Prescribed Fire, Wildfire, and Incident Complex
Area Covered: United States
What can I do with this layer? 
The data includes basic wildfire information, such as location, size, environmental conditions, and resource summaries. Features can be filtered by incident name, size, or date keeping in mind that not all perimeters are fully attributed.
Attribute Information
This is a list of attributes that benefit from additional explanation. Not all attributes are listed.
Incide