Many weather factors can dictate the risk, intensity and spread of wildfires. They include wind, relative humidity and fuel moisture. Temperature and drought levels also play a role, and all of these conditions can also impact efforts to fight and contain wildfires. GFC has tools to provide important information and updates on wildfire conditions and activity across the state.

Monitor Wildfire Conditions

The GFC Fire Weather System provides area fire weather forecasts. The state is divided into ten forecast areas to provide the most accurate local information.

View Fire Weather Forecasts

V Smoke

In addition to standard weather conditions, it is equally as important to plan for smoke dispersion on prescribed fires. VSmoke-Web is a web-based implementation of VSmoke (Lavdas, 1996) and is designed to assist with planning prescribed burns in the Southern United States. VSmoke is a simple gaussian smoke dispersion model that calculates isopleths of surface smoke concentration.

Estimate Prescribed Fire Smoke Impacts

Track Georgia Wildfire Activity

GFC’s Georgia Wildfire Public Viewer provides an interactive map that pinpoints wildfire activity throughout the state. This tool is directly linked to GFC’s wildfire computer-aided dispatch system and software called FiResponse. It offers current information about Georgia’s reported and active wildfires. Details include:

  • fire location
  • whether a fire is active, contained or controlled
  • when suppression is complete

If GFC is responding to an incident, the system syncs automatically. Wildfire incidents that are closed are not shown. Please Note: smartphone applications are not yet supported, but are planned.

For successful connectivity, ensure that Java Script is installed and that only supported browsers such as Google Chrome are used. Frequent “refreshing” of the site keeps the real-time data current. Slow internet speeds may hamper proper functioning.

Open the Georgia Wildfire Public Viewer

Burn Permits and Notifications

Some outdoor burning requires a burn permit and/or notification. NOTE: Burning Permits are good only for the day they are issued.

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For more information about obtaining burn permits, contact your local GFC office more information.