How does my area compare?
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About Auburn Globe
A clearer view of wildfire conditions across regions.
Auburn Globe brings a seasonal wildfire outlook, recent satellite observations, reported fire events, source timestamps, and official public resources into one place. It is designed to help a visitor see both the earlier outlook and the evidence available today.
What is predicted
Relative wildfire potential across broad regions.
The fixed 2026 study focused its 23-region North American panel on California and Canada. A separate global-forward panel contains 14 larger comparison regions. These are the complete published forecast scopes; searching somewhere else does not imply that a forecast was made there. Red and orange identify regions that ranked higher within their comparison set. Yellow and green identify regions that ranked lower.
A color is not a percentage chance of fire. The outlook does not predict a specific ignition, street, evacuation zone, future perimeter, or the behavior of an individual incident. The shapes on the map are approximate forecast areas, not predicted burn areas.
What the current view shows
Recent observations are kept separate from the forecast.
The forecast remains fixed to its publication date. The worldwide current-fire layer is updated separately from NASA satellite heat detections and available public incident or event records. It can be used for any searched place, including locations outside the published forecast. This makes it possible to compare what was forecast with what later appeared without changing the original outlook.
Satellite heat detections can include wildfire, prescribed or agricultural burning, industrial heat, and other sources. They are shown as observations, not as a count of separate fires. Public incident records add context where a current source is available.
How to use the site
Start with the question you want answered.
What is showing now?
Use Current fires to compare forecast regions or search the worldwide observation atlas.
What does a label mean?
Use How to read for plain-language definitions of every tier, status, source, and timestamp.
Coverage and timing
Every reading carries its date and source state.
Each area distinguishes the observation window, latest source observation, last regional detection, and retrieval time. If a current transmission is delayed or unavailable, the page says so rather than displaying a false zero. A dated verified snapshot may be shown while a current source is unavailable.
Satellite coverage is broader than public incident-feed coverage. Not every local authority or event appears in the indexed sources yet, so an omitted incident does not mean that no fire exists. Area pages link to relevant government resources for local incident maps, alerts, and instructions.
The 2026 record
The season is still in progress.
Current labels describe how the fixed outlook compares with the evidence available at the displayed time. They are not a final result for the full season. Final evaluation becomes possible only after the relevant seasonal windows close and the incident record is complete enough to review.
The separate Testing page preserves the technical evaluation for readers who want it; it is supporting evidence, not the main way to navigate Auburn Globe.
Public seasonal outlook and observation map.
For alerts and emergency action, use your local authorities.
Auburn Globe provides regional context. National, state, provincial, territorial, and local agencies remain the source for evacuations, closures, warnings, and operational fire information.