Wildfires in California, 1895 - 2015

Wildfires are a fact of life in California. With California in a massive drought, wildfires are becoming more common, larger, and more destructive in the state. This map shows the history of wildfires larger than 5000 acres in California.

Created by Gavin Sonne, Kaio Barbosa, and Wookjin Jang in collaboration with Suresh K Lodha, Shobhit Maheshwari, and Ryan Brounley for CMPS 165 - Data Programming and Visualization

List of Files:

index.html

stylesheet.css

CA_Fires.js

caFire.json

d3.slider.css

d3.slider.js List of Data Sources:

Fire Perimeters

Fire Perimeter Database Description

List of Code Sources:

California Population Density

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