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USGS Fire Monitoring and Forecasting
November 8, 2012 | USGS

“Each day, the U.S. Geological Survey produces 7-day forecasts for all Federal lands of the distributions of number of ignitions, number of fires above a given size, and conditional probabilities of fires growing larger than a specified size.” Quoted from the USGS press release.


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