Incident Information
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can create many environmental benefits, such as reducing grass, brush, and trees that can fuel large and severe wildfires and improving wildlife habitat. In the wrong place at the wrong time, wildfires can wreak havoc, threatening lives, homes, communities, and natural and cultural resources.
This is more important than ever because over the last few decades, the wildland fire management environment has profoundly changed. Longer fire seasons, larger fires, more acres burned on average each year, more extreme fire behavior, and wildfire suppression operations in the wildland urban interface (WUI) have become the norm.
Inciweb
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Georgia Fire Information
Georgia Forestry Commission
- State information about wildfire activity, emergency response and resources available to communities and landowners
- Includes an interactive map that pinpoints wildfire activity
Resources and Partners
The Forest Service has been managing wildland fire on National Forests and Grasslands for more than 100 years. But the Forest Service doesn’t – and can’t – do it alone. Instead, the agency works closely with other federal, tribal, state, and local partners. The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest works directly with numerous other federal, tribal, state, and local partners to manage wildland fire.
To address these challenges, the Forest Service and its other federal, tribal, state, and local partners have developed and are implementing a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy that seeks to safely and effectively extinguish fire when needed; use fire where allowable; manage our natural resources; and as a nation, live with wildland fire. The strategy has three key components: Resilient Landscapes, Fire Adapted Communities, and Safe and Effective Wildfire Response.
Some important information resources and partners include:
- National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
- Southern Area Coordination Center (SACC)
- Current Fires in Georgia (inciweb.nwcg.gov)
- Cooperators
- Research and Data
- SouthWRAP - Real-Time Wildfire Maps
- Wildfire Risk to Communities - wildfirerisk.org
- Landfire (geospatial data on wildland vegetation)
- Wildfire Hazard Potential
- Joint Fire Science Program
- Air quality: www.georgiaair.org
- U.S. Drought Monitor - Georgia