BOULDER, Colo. – A new tool from NOAA is the first to ever provide hourly updates on wildfire behavior, giving more accurate and timely predictions of wildfire activity.
The tool, called the Hourly Wildfire Potential Index (HWP) was developed by scientists at NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Colorado cooperative institute CIRES, based on three years of measurements of radiant heat captured by satellites flying over large wildfires in the western U.S., NOAA said…