Helpful Data for the San Diego Fires
October 25th, 2007by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorIn an effort to make more resources and data available to the community in regards to the San Diego fires we’ve uploaded a decent chunk of data to GeoCommons. We are tagging all the data with “San Diego fire” and will be updating GeoCommons as more data becomes available. We’ll also be putting together a separate page with data mashups and useful context about the fires, as the situation evolves. If anyone has GeoRSS, KML, or shapefiles they would like to share with the community please feel free to upload them into GeoCommons and tag them with “San Diego fire”.
Below is a quick list of data we’ve uploaded into GeoCommons related to the fires. *you can download the data without having an account but if you want to make a map with the data you’ll need to create an account and login*
October 27th, 2007 Data
HAZUS Demographic and Structure Data for San Diego
I thought it might be useful to have data on the location of structures, square footage, and demographics to overlay with the hazard data:
HAZUS – San Diego, CA Building Square Footage
HAZUS – San Diego, California – Race Demographics
HAZUS – San Diego MSA – Housing
HAZUS – San Diego MSA – Day Vehicle Count
HAZUS – San Diego MSA – Resident
HAZUS – San Diego, CA – Age Sex
HAZUS – San Diego, CA – Income
HAZUS – San Diego, CA – Building Count
Also check out Andrew Turner’s map at Mapufacture for real time data feeds
October 26th, 2007 Data
CONUS – Current Large Fires in the US – Incidents 12-24 hours ago (10:00 am Oct. 26, 2007)
CONUS – Current Large Fires in the US – Incidents 0-12 hours ago (10:00 am Oct. 26, 2007)
CONUS – Current Large Fires in the US – Current Incidents (10:00 am Oct. 26, 2007)
Structures lost from SoCal Fires as of October 26th, 2007 2:00 pm”
October 25th, 2007
-A map of fire burn areas in Southern California
-San Diego Wildfires – Structures Lost
-Home Destroyed by San Diego Wildfire in Rancho Bernardo October 25, 2007
-CONUS MODIS – Fire Detections and Current NIFC Large Wildland Fires incidents – Oct 25, 2007 2:00 pm
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Fire (no name, Contained)
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Witch Creek Fire
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Witch Fire and Poomacha Estimated Evacuation Area
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Rosa Fire (contained)
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Rice Fire Estimated perimeter
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Horno Fire
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Wilcox Fire
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Evacuation Area
-San Diego Wildfires – Oct. 25, 2007 – Harris Fire Evacuation area extension
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