The WIFIRE Firemap has been instrumental in supporting early fire suppression efforts through real-time fire behavior modeling. However, wildfires often burn for days or weeks, necessitating longer-term predictive capabilities. To address this challenge, the team has extended Firemap to forecast fire spread from modeling the first few hours past initial ignition to five days past initial ignition. This advancement integrates two additional fire behavior models, ELMFIRE and GridFire, extending forecasting capabilities from hours to five days. This development leveraged a containerized microservices architecture, enabling seamless integration of multiple fire models within a federated execution environment.

Firemap illustrates the power of collaborative open science approaches to wildfire management. However, solutions like Firemap are challenging to evaluate within the larger ecosystem of data, models, and services. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is a community platform designed to support fire modeling innovations, customizable workflows, and robust cataloging to recognize all the data, models, tools, and services the community provides for wildland fire pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire phases.