fire map
Definition
A digital or physical visualization displaying the location, intensity, and spread of active wildfires, often integrated with satellite telemetry or ground-sensor data.
A specialized tracking tool used by emergency services, meteorologists, and the public to monitor air quality, evacuations, and thermal activity across a geographic region.
Examples
I spend half of my summer staring at the fire map, turning my nervous habit of checking social media into a nervous habit of checking satellite thermal signatures.
Checking the fire map has become the new weather app, except instead of knowing if I need an umbrella, I'm checking if I need to pack my life into a suitcase in ten minutes.
My anxiety is currently indexed by the red blobs on the fire map, which are both highly informative and profoundly unhelpful to my sleep schedule.