Operational intelligence

UK Wildfire Operations Dashboard

Live wildfire risk screening across 198 sites using both authoritative reported incidents and satellite fire detections, with current weather, wind-to-site direction and a 5-day outlook.
LIVE
BUILD v21 VERIFIED
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Critical sites <5 mi
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Concern sites 5–10 mi
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Watch sites <20 mi
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Verified reported fires
Checking official sources…
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FireMap.live cross-check
Checking availability…
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Satellite fire clusters
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Last live refresh

Filtered sites

Connecting to VIIRS…
Official sources: checking… Satellite: checking… FireMap: checking…
Source health
Live risk counters use a strict freshness gate. Direct official incident pages need active-incident wording plus a verifiable published/modified timestamp within the last 48 hours. News discovery is limited to the last 24 hours and now has two independent discovery paths: Google News RSS and GDELT, filtered back to authoritative publishers. If one discovery route fails, the other can continue to contribute. Older or undated reports never drive live counters.
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Site
Raw VIIRS
Verified reported fire
Satellite cluster
<5 mi
5–10 mi
10–20 mi
Map refreshes every 15 minutes • raw thermal anomalies never trigger a warning by themselves

Sites requiring attention

Current sites within 10 miles of credible fire activity, closest first.

Checking live fire intelligence…

Recent / previous fire history

Reference only — these incidents do not affect current risk counters and are not shown on the live map by default.

Historical entries come from the dashboard’s stored reported-fire snapshot. They are clearly separated from live verified-fire and satellite activity to avoid confusion.
Screening rule. A site can be triggered either by a freshness-verified authoritative reported fire or by a qualifying satellite cluster. A satellite concern still requires at least two nominal/high-confidence VIIRS detections within 1 mile of each other, no more than 12 hours old, including at least one high-confidence detection. Authoritative news must be published within the last 24 hours and clearly describe a real fire/blaze/wildfire incident. Direct official incident pages must also expose a recent published/modified timestamp before they can drive live risk counters. Verified-fire cards prioritise authoritative incident details and do not show blank satellite metrics. Satellite fire intensity is shown only when a qualifying satellite cluster exists. Reported fire size is shown only when a current article explicitly states a size. Current temperature, apparent temperature, humidity, conditions, wind and gusts refresh with the same 15-minute dashboard cycle. Wind direction is compared with the bearing from the cluster to the site to indicate whether wind is broadly toward, crosswind or away from the site. The 5-day timeline is a weather outlook, not a fire-spread forecast. For satellite-derived risk, distance is measured to the closest qualifying VIIRS fire-detection point within the cluster. For verified reported fires, distance is measured to the geolocated incident point or published location; where an exact perimeter is unavailable this remains approximate. This is intentionally conservative. The verified-fire feed uses direct official incident checks plus authoritative discovery, with visible source-health status. FireMap.live is included as an independent visual cross-check source, not as a sole automatic trigger because its public site does not expose a documented open incident API. If source coverage is degraded the dashboard says so instead of presenting a misleading zero. Satellite data indicates thermal activity, not an exact flame front or confirmed wildfire perimeter.