July 8, 2004
Jacket Fire Southeast of Flagstaff
How to get up-to-date descriptions and maps
depicting the status of this and other fires.
The "Jacket" fire from the I-40 exit 207.
Excellent information, updated frequently, is available
providing maps of fires over 100 acres and showing
progress through time and many other features, with
information not older than 12 hours, and as little as
one hour old. My favorite for following this fire is
Active Fire Maps.
Pick the dot closest to or over the center of the fire you
are interested in. Then you can magnify and pan the
satellite image get a better idea of location in relation
to your home. After you have zoomed in to at least the
6mile scale (This takes awhile...it's a big planet.), to see
the dimensions of the fire, and which part of the fire
area is still burning, select "Fire Detections" and then
select both "MODIS(Last 12 Hours)" and
"MODIS(Last 24 Hours)" at the same time to get a sort of
time-lapse view.
The best, most detailed written fire status is at
Coconino Nat'l Forest. The latest series of bulletins is
under "Forest News" which is the right-hand column of
this page (Click Here to go directly to Forest News).