The U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is used by all federal and most state fire management agencies for assessing seasonal fire severity across the nation. The application that hosts the NFDRS is the Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management’s (WO F&AM) Weather Information Management System (WIMS) located at the USDA National Information Technology Center in Kansas City, Missouri. WIMS ingests hourly weather observations from more than 1,800 Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) across the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
In 2015 FMI staff continued leading the science and technical implementation of NFDRS 2016 in the WIMS development environment.
They also collaborated with various partners to:
FMI staff participated in WIMS training classes in Kentucky, Idaho, and California and provided national technical support for WIMS through the National Fire Applications Help Desk. They assisted in resolving 27 elevated tickets on WIMS technical issues in 2015.
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