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Northern California Lightning Detection Radar
Placerville Lightning Radar
Lightning Radar 		Placerville Lightning with Rain Radar
Lightning & Radar 		Placerville Lightning 30/60 Min Replay
Lightning Replay

Fire Monitoring Satellite for California
Western U.S.
Visible
Visual Satellite Loop 		Eastern U.S.
Northern & Southern California Satellite Loop
Visual Satellite Loop 		California
Visible
Visual Satellite Loop 		Norcal & Central CA.
Northern & Southern California Satellite Loop
Visual Satellite Loop 		Northern CA.
Goes-10 Infrared Ch. 2
Visible Still

Southern CA.
Goes-10 Infrared Ch. 4
Goes IR Ch. 4 		Southern CA.
Goes-10 Infrared Ch. 2
Goes IR Ch. 2 		Southern CA.
Goes-10 Reflectivity
Goes Reflectivity 		Southern CA.
Goes-10 Shortwave Albedo
Goes Shortwave 		North America
HMS Fire Analysis
HMS Fire Analysis

Probable fires will appear as sharp white "spots" in the reflectivity & infrared images

California, Placerville, Motherlode & Northern Sierra


Fire Text
Northern Sierra
Fire Forecast

Placerville, CA. Fire Danger
Chandler Burning Index: LOW
Currently:
9.7 at 2:57 PM
Chandler Burning Index
Fire Text
Motherlode
Fire Forecast

Fire News
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California Smokey Air
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California Fires Map
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El Dorado County
Severity Zones 		California Fires Map
El Dorado County
High Severity Zones


Placerville, CA. Area - "Modified Watering & Irrigation Index"

Current Modified Watering Index
41% 		Current 7 Day Irrigation Index
0.84 in.
>> Minimum Water Needed To Keep Your Lawn Alive and Well & Conserve Water <<

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How Forest Fires Are Started

Wild Fire Causes



Item Descriptions

The fire danger meter is for Placerville, California, which is the location of El Dorado Weather. The meter uses the Composite Burn Index or CBI. Listed within the meter is the current temperature and humidity for Placerville, two very important factors in measuring the fire danger. Also shown for the Placerville area is the Sierra Fire Forecast Text.

The rest of the page items are National fire watching tools. This includes the Fire Advisory Map, Fire Detection Map, Forest Fire Causes, and the US Fire Detection Text.

The fire dectection text lists the state, county, nearest town to the fire, and the distance in miles from the town to the fire.

The fire advisory map list the current fire danger or fire conditions severity for the lower 48 states, and shows color coded fire severity for all the national locations.

The Fire Detection Map shows all the current wild fire detections in the United States. Also listed is the exact longitude and latitude for each fire location, the nearby towns, the type of land cover such as deciduous broadleaf forest, mixed forest, or grasslands etc for example.

The pie graph is pretty self explaintory as it stands, and demonstrates a comprehensive chart of all of the causes of forest fires.






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