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Monitoring Fires and Air Quality Sources and Links
Sources for monitoring current fire activity and prescribed fuel reduction burns:
For real-time fire activity, fire updates, and prescribed fire maps, check out the forest website, social media sites, or listen to the day of burn recorded voicemail message:
- Okanogan County Fire Facebook updates
- US Forest Service-Okanogan County Fire Twitter updates
- US Forest Service Fire Updates Interactive map. Active fires, prescribed burns. Zoom in for details.
- Fire & burn recorded message, phone: 509-996-4040
- Inciweb Maps and descriptions of active fires are updated at least daily by the Northwest Incident Management group. Tip: You’ll need to scroll and zoom into Edelweiss area for updates.
- CalTopo A website that provides contour maps and layering of current and past and current fires, topography, wind direction and more. Tip: Click on layers on the right side to adjust layers. A CalTopo app is also available for Android and iPhones.
- NOAA fire weather Includes a customizable map, fire-related weather forecasts, fire potential outlook.
- Okanogan County Fire Information Facebook group also posts regular information about wildfire preparation, safety, current fires, and other related information.
- Facebook: There will likely be a Facebook group for each DNR designated active fire. Once you learn of new fires in the area, search Facebook for the fire and join the group for daily updates from the forest service fire command group.
Sources for monitoring air quality:
- AirNow Enter your zip code in this EPA web site for local air quality information. One section of the site is specifically focused on fires.
- PurpleAir Real Time Air Quality Map Several Edelweiss residents and many others in the Valley have purchased “Purple Air” air quality measuring devices and allow their results to be publicly available on Purple’s map, providing a VERY local measurement of particulates.