info re: areas burned

https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

$ in insured losses

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2018/11/12/507286.htm

# of homes at risk

https://www.verisk.com/insurance/visualize/key-findings-from-the-2017-verisk-wildfire-risk-analysis/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=VeriskSM&utm_content=842017

Some numbers around impact from wildfires

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires

http://www.fireparadox.org/suppression_fire.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_control

Type of burn control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn

About VIIRS's data format: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms/viirs-i-band-active-fire-data

Published WIP repository: https://github.com/watilde/firefighting-planner

4.5 million U.S. homes were identified at high or extreme risk of wildfire

Losses from wildfires added up to $5.1 billion over the past 10 years.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires

Experience/knowledge sharing is a key to push the capability of firefighting as individual's experience is limited

https://www.efi.int/sites/default/files/files/publication-bank/2018/efi_rr24.pdf

Typical 3 methods to suppress wildfires

http://www.fireparadox.org/suppression_fire.php

70,000 wildfire victims in California

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/business/energy-environment/pge-wildfire-victims.html

$2bn business impact

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/11/california-power-outages-cost-business-wildfires

Fire information provided by NASA: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Predicting where could catch a fire requires population data and economic data - too complicated to build a reliable model in this timeline

"山火事の4％が自然発火。つまり96％は人間による意図的な放火で、その原因は「何十年にもわたって解決されない村落の社会・経済闘争」" - World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Some visualization of incident map

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

Serious planning required to set fire intentionally as fire spread prevention

林野火災にあたって、速やかな消火及び消火活動の強化を目的として、火を意図的につけて消火を図る方法がある。ただし、この火を使った消火方法は、延焼拡大の危険性が高いので、地形、気象条件（風向き、風速）及び火の進行方向等を判断する技術及び消火隊員相互の協力が必須であり、通常の消火方法では対応できない状況において、最終的手段として使用されることが推奨される

We verified the judging regulation and the 30-Seconds of Glory guide for some tips carefully.

• https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/judging/
• https://sa-media-2017.s3.amazonaws.com/media/images/30seconds.original.png

https://gigazine.net/news/20180822-isp-throttle-fire-department/

Tl;dr: Data to share among firefighters should be compact and compressed