Misinformation on Wildfires

Superstan

It would seem that there is a mixup in some of the information of the wildfires. The app indicates fires in Melvindale Michigan near Detroit, well as Alpena Mi l. and even Burns Harbor near Gary Indiana which is a Warehouse/Sea Port/ Railyard. There are no wildfires in these cities as I have people in those cities. Actually there are many fires shown in Mexico that are false. In Ohio also and even Canada there are many fires shown that do not exist.

Nicole Dolezalova

@Superstan Hello, the active fires are not only wildfire data, but all active fires detected, including agricultural and other sources. Hope this explains these points of interest to you. Have a nice day, Niki

GTMistral

Hi,

I will go the opposite direction as @Superstan, there are a great number of huge wildfires right now in Manitoba, Canada but none are visible on the map, I'm confused about that. Why is that?

https://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation_fire/Fire-Maps/fireview/fireview.html

Wheats

@GTMistral @Superstan
These data are from NASA FIRMS. It's active fire/hotspot data, not fire data from the different agencies. Anything that provides enough heat could get flagged. I also think Windy filters out some of the data that FIRMS provides - probably the low confidence hot spots.

My guess is the cooler weather and bit of precipitation have quieted down some of the fire activity so you aren't seeing as many intense hot spots.

This is from the "info, (i)" icon.
Active fires
The data on active fires is provided by NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System). The presented value is called Fire Radiative Power (FRP) and depicts the pixel-integrated fire radiative power in MW (megawatts) over a square kilometer. To offer a comprehensive view of fires that is larger than one pixel, we present total area of a fire cluster. A single pixel corresponds to approximately 300 meters. On the minimap, a circle indicates the approximate location of a single fire pixel. For more information about how the data is collected, refer to FAQ page at NASA.

Hope that clears things up! :)

GTMistral

@Wheats Sweet, thank you for the swift reply on that. Literally the first thing I see when opening NASA's FIRMS website, which I didn't know about.

Wheats

@GTMistral oh, cool ahaha. And no problem, happy to help.