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Local Risk Lookup

Is my area at risk?

Enter a ZIP code or county in the 11-state western fire corridor. Results combine our seasonal risk model, real-time fire incident data, and PurpleAir AQI sensors.

What this is, and isn’t. The percentile compares your cell to the 5,500+ cells in the corridor for the current season. It is nota probability that a fire will reach your address. For evacuation and life-safety actions, follow your local emergency alerts — the sign-up link for your state appears below your results.

Try an example:

ZIP and county centroids: US Census Bureau 2020 Gazetteer (public domain). Risk grid: Firewatch seasonal model. Fires: WFIGS (NIFC). AQI: PurpleAir, 10-minute average, converted with the EPA 2024 PM2.5 breakpoints. Generating script: scripts/build_centroids.py in this repo.