GFMC Early warning portal: Daily Global and Regional Fire Weather and Climate Forecasts & Background Materials
Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System (GWFEWS)
Fire Weather Forecasts
Global and regional
- NOAA/NESDIS Fire Risk and Vegetation Health Products
- El Niño /Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Forecast
- Global Fire Weather Database (GFWED)
- GFWED animation
- Resource Watch – Fire Risk
- Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)
- Global Forest Watch – Fires
Regional
- Regional Fire Danger Rating System for Southeast Asia (BMKG)
- Southeast Asia Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning Advisory and Assessment System (VFSP-WAS)
- Regional Fire Danger Rating System for Southeast Asia (SEA FDRS)
- Upper South East Asian Fire Danger Rating System (Government of Thailand)
- Eurasian Experimental Fire Weather Information System
- European Forest Fires Information System (EFFIS)
- Alpine Forest Fire Warning System (ALPF FIRS) project
- Amazon fire risk system by Conservation International
- Mexico and Central America
National
Argentina: Combustion Risk Index and Convectivity Index
Australia: National Weather and Warnings Information
Brazil: Observed and Predicted Fire Weather and NDVI
Canada: Wildland Fire Information System
Estonia: Landscape Fire Hazard
Finland: The Finnish Forest Fire Index
Germany: Forest and Grassland Fire Danger Indices
Greece: Forest Fire Danger Index
Indonesia: Indonesian Fire Danger Rating System; Fire Danger Rating for East Kalimantan; Fire Danger Rating for Sumatra
Italy: RISICO – Fire danger rating system
Korea, Republic of: Korea Forest Fire Danger Rating System
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of: Macedonian Forest Fire Information System (MKFFIS)
Malaysia: Malaysia Fire Danger Rating System
(note: The URL is functioning despite looking expired)
México: Wildland Fire Information System
Netherlands: Natuurbrandrisiko
New Zealand: Fire Weather Forecasts
Poland: Forest Fire Danger Index
Portugal: Meteorological Support to Forest Fire Prevention
Russia: Meteorological Fire Indices
South Africa: Net Forecasting
Sweden: Forest and Grassland Fire Index
Thailand: Daily fire danger rating map (in Thai)
Turkey: Fire Weather Index System (in Turkish)
Ukraine: Forest Fire Danger Index
USA: Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS); Fire Weather Forecasts of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
Vietnam: Forest Fire Warning System in Vietnam
Training Materials:
Canada: Understanding the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System (Interactive Multimedia Training)
Other Materials:
Canada: CFFDRS Weather Guide
New Zealand: Proposed Revision of Fire Danger Class Criteria for Forest and Rural Areas in New Zealand
USA: The Keech-Byram-Drought-Index: A Corrigendum
Climate Forecasts
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
Other Early Warning Websites
UN ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW) Humanitarian Early Warning Service – HEWS
Major References and Documents on Early Warning of Wildland Fire
- Global Survey of Early Warning Systems. A report prepared at the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Final version released after the Third International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, 27-29 March 2006; PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Third International Conference on Early Warning (Wildland Fire Workshop, 28 March 2006)
- Innovative Concepts and Methods in Fire Danger Estimation (Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management, Ghent, Belgium, 5-7 June 2003) (PDF, 7.5 MB) Workshop Website: http://www.geogra.uah.es/earsel/report1.html
- Statement of the Second international Conference on Early Warning (PDF, 134 KB)
- Effective Early Warning to Reduce Disasters: The Need for More Coherent International Action (Resolution of the Second International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, Germany, 16-18 October 2003) (PDF, 212 KB)
- Earth Negotiations Report on the Second International Conference on Early Warning (Earth Negotiations Bulletin Vol. 26, No.1, 20 October 2003)
- Early Warning of Wildland Fires (A Synoptic Paper prepared for the Second International Conference on Early Warning, Bonn, Germany, 16-18 October 2003) (PDF, 342 KB)
- IDNDR Early Warning Programme Report on Early Warning for Fire and Other Environmental Hazards (IDNDR Secretariat / GFMC, 1997)
- Workshop on International Collaboration in Fire Weather Research (Summary of findings and conclusions of a joint workshop of the Bureau of Meteorology, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, and the World Weather Research Programme, Melbourne, Australia, 9-10 October 2003).
- Global Monitoring and Forecasting of Biomass-Burning Smoke: Description of and Lessons From the Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) Program (by J.S. Reid et al., 2009) (PDF, 2 MB)
- Workshop on Peatland Fire Prediction and Warning in the ASEAN Region (Key Conclusions and Recommendations of the workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, 13-14 July 2010): ASEAN-Peatland-EW-Workshop-2010-Final-Statement (PDF, 0.1 MB).
- Goldammer, J.G., Mangeon, S., Keywood, M., Kaiser, J.W., de Groot, W.J., Gunawan, D., Gan, C., Field, R., Sofiev, M., Baklanov, A. 2018. Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning and Advisory System (VFSP-WAS): Concept Note and Expert Recommendations. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), GAW Report No. 235, 44 p. Download at GFMC: WMO GAW Report No. 235 (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Baklanov, A., B.N. Chew, A. Frassoni, C. Gan, J.G. Goldammer, M. Keywood, S. Mangeon, P.M. Manseau, and P. Radenko. 2021. The WMO Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning Advisory and Assessment System (VFSP-WAS): Concept, Current Capabilities, Research and Development Challenges and the Way Ahead.Biodiversidade Brasileira 11 (2), 2021, 179-201. DOI: 10.37002/biobrasil.v11i2.1738.
- Saharjo, B.H. and J.G. Goldammer. 2021. Bridging the Services of the WMO Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning Advisory and Assessment System (VFSP-WAS) to Politics, Policies and Land Management: the South East Asia Example and Global Visions. Biodiversidade Brasileira 11 (2), 2021, 202-2012. DOI: 10.37002/biobrasil.v11i2.1740.
