FireCan

Visualizing the spread of Canadian wildfires by animating Canadian Wildland Fire Information System maps. So much smoke!

How to run:

• clone the repository
• ensure you have poetry installed.
• cd to the main firecan directory and run make.
• to scrape additional images, run make scrape after changing the Configuration settings.
• to remake animations, run make animate.

Output gifs

A couple of sample output animations, located in firecan/assets.

Rate of spread	Hotspots	Fire Danger

Configuration

The default settings are to scrape these three maps over the past 5 weeks. These configuration settings are in firecan/config/config.py.

Two settings are important here

• days_to_scrape: self explanatory; defaults to 4 weeks. Note that "fire M3 maps and reports are updated daily [only] from May through September."
• maps_to_scrape: There are 18 different map types available between the Fire Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling System (Fire M3), the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System (FBP), and the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System (FWI). Add any elements from the fm3_types, fb_types, fw_types, or w_types lists to the maps_to_scrape array in the config file.