This app presents active wildfires in the United States. The source for the locations is Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) location database along with the polygon perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Both layers update every 15 minutes. .

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Fires are sorted by burn size (in the grid view) or age (in the timeline view). This application is an unofficial presentation of this data and is intended for reference only.

• Before we begin, make sure you have a fresh version of Node.js and NPM installed. The current Long Term Support (LTS) release is an ideal starting point.

• To begin, fork this repository and clone the fork to your computer:

  https://github.com/vannizhang/wildfire-viz-app.git

• From the project's root directory, install the required packages (dependencies):

  npm install

• Now you can start the webpack dev server to test the app on your local machine:

  # it will start a server instance and begin listening for connections from localhost on port 8080
  npm run start

• To build/deploye the app, you can simply run:

  # it will place all files needed for deployment into the /dist directory 
  npm run build

• ArcGIS API for JavaScript (version 4.11)
• React.js

• Using Firefly Symbol in ArcGIS Online
• Using Firefly Symbol in ArcGIS Pro
• Firefly Basemap
• The USA Wildfire Activity layer used by this app is available on ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

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