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