From Glenn Bethel of the USDA:

Here are some USDA/Forest Service References:

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is the nation’s support center for wildland firefighting. http://www.nifc.gov/

National Interagency Coordination Center, Incident Management Situation Report http://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf

The Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center (OSCC) is the focal point for coordinating the mobilization of resources for wildland fire and other incidents throughout Southern California http://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/

GEOMAC Wildland Fire Support: In order to get some value from this tool, you will need to know the name of the incidents. See Active Fire Mapping site for Incident Name:

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/ http://geomac.usgs.gov/viewer/viewer.htm

Incident Information System (National Incidents) http://www.inciweb.org/ Maps with Fire Perimeters http://www.inciweb.org/maps/ Google Earth Feed http://www.inciweb.org/

Continental United States Fire Detection GIS Data Terra and Aqua MODIS fire and thermal anomalies data generated from MODIS near real-time data acquired by the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center, University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Alaska-Fairbanks Geographic Information Network of Alaska, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Direct Readout Laboratory, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center MODIS Rapid Response System. Data provided in shapefile and coverage formats and is updated hourly.

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/gisdata.php

MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program Fire locations are based on data provided by the National Interagency Fire Center and are subject to change. Move your mouse over the fire indicators or click to see additional information (popups required). http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

Fire Imaging: (Thermal IR Aerial) Current imagery for Poomacha Fire and Rice Fire http://www.fireimaging.com/homepage.html

Also see these spectacular images and movies from the HPWREN Lyons Peak cameras:

Wow! I saved the timelapse movie; it’s here as a 1MB MPEG file

Update: Fixed MPEG file.