Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion California fire threat map and current fires

Yes, I looked at the Cal Fire data and decided not to add it to the map due to a data quality issue.

In broad strokes, GeoMAC tracks big fires that include federal resources. CalFire tracks fires that do not include federal resouces.

The GeoMAC data only includes GeoMAC fires. Good.

The CalFire data includes both CalFire fires and GeoMAC fires. I am not convinced that CalFire keeps the data for the GeoMAC fires up to date. When I checked the Colby fire (GeoMAC is tracking) on the CalFire site, their data was way out of date.

If the CalFire data only had info about their own fires and not info about GeoMAC fires, then I would happily add the CalFire data to the map.