At a glance
Check the source and date of each record. A past count or map can show a pattern, but it cannot confirm what is happening at the scene now.
Find sources for fire stations, rescue teams and wildfire alerts. Each serves a different need, so check the agency and area behind the information.
Check the source and date of each record. A past count or map can show a pattern, but it cannot confirm what is happening at the scene now.
Use the linked guides for more on border travel, major events and local help. For an urgent problem, use the official service that handles it.
GISTDA fire and disaster platform for hotspot, fire, burned-area, and related geospatial context. Useful for wildfire and public-safety risk overlays, not for live fire-engine dispatch.
Access: Public disaster platform dashboard and geospatial fire layers. Updates: Near real time to hourly depending hotspot and burned-area layer.
Department of National Parks wildfire and hotspot geospatial source with fire-related overlays and protected-area wildfire context. Useful for smoke, forest-fire, and conservation-area safety overlays.
Access: Public geospatial dashboard and hotspot layers. Updates: Daily to near real time during wildfire season.
Crowdsourced geospatial enrichment for police stations, fire stations, ambulance stations, rescue stations, AEDs, and other emergency-related POIs. Useful for map context, not official operational status.
Access: OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts. Updates: Weekly nationally; daily or weekly for high-use areas.
Use an emergency number for immediate danger; directories and datasets are for non-urgent checking.