Lookout: Buck Rock

Buck Rock Lookout
(36.7371392, -118.8606221) 

Twice a day Buck Rock needs to listen in on reports and note things in its log. Here are links which will provide the information for these reports:

• Listening In
• 1000 - Weather and Staffing
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno
  
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• 1600 - Indices and Weather
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno

• Weather
• Lightning Map
• from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah) 
• NOAA Weather Station (data): Buck Rock (AU523) Utah's MesoWest
• Mesowest from Utah Sensors for California-change sensors to All Networks
  
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart for 5,000-9,100'-caution the wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (pdf)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-May, June, July (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-August, September, October (pdf)
• Probability of Ignition (pdf)
  
•  Sequoia National Forest
•   WildCAD-E  Includes information on incidents and resources.(Sequoia NF only)
• CCICC (Central California Interagency Command Center) web links 
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
•  Sierra National
• WildCAD-E   Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)
• 
  
• Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
• WildCAD-E - Includes information on incidents and resources. (SEKI only)
• Fire Information
•  InciWeb California - Presents a map of the US where you can drill down. Look for the fire icons
• CalFire Current Incidents
• NIFC
• Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
•   National Preparadiness Levels:
• Actual
• Other
• Yosemite
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook page
• California Fire Tracker - The San Francisco Chronicle maintains an interactive map of current and past fires.
• #FireMapper - ArcGIS Firemapping of hot spots. You will need to move around the map to where you want to see. 
• CalTopo Fire Map-use Buck Rock Lat/Long(36.7371392, -118.8606221) and click on Fire History or Fire Activity  
  
• Large Forest Service Fires-Historical documents-an FTP Site
• General
• Northern California Fires
• Southern California Fires
  
• Incident Response  Pocket Guide - PMS461, April 2018  (pdf)
• Lookout Information
•  Buck Rock Foundation
• Topo Map of the area (Not active yet)
• Azimuth from Buck Rock (Google Drive, xls, 1Mb)

• Air Quality
•  List of Monitor sites
• Buck Rock Lookout (Delilah, Park Ridge and Buck Rock) Area. Dates may need to be adjusted to the current date
  
• Trimmer (USFS 1043 )
• Grant Grove/Hume (SEKI1032 EBAM4 )
•  SEKI/General's Highway/Ash Mountain (SEKI1002 EBAM5)
• Obsolete sites
•  Porterville (NPS SEKI-BAM:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Porterville (SEKI1002 EBAM5:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Springville (1045Springville EBAM:36045 Highway 190, Springville, CA 93265)
• Three Rivers (SEKI1000 EBAM4:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA)
•  General's Highway (SEKI1003 EBAM6:Generals Highway, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia NP)
• Pinehurst (50 Pinehurst BAM:Pinehurst, California) 
• Three Rivers area (NPS4 eBAM) No longer in use
  
• Three Rivers (SEKI1001 EBAM3:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA) No longer in use
• Prather (USFS1016)  No longer in use
• North Fork (USFS 1013)  No longer in use
•  
• Pinhurst Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring 
• Grant Grove Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring
• Purple Air -graphical map of air quality
  
•  Air Now
• AirNow - Smoke Report - From Delilah Lookout
• Misc
• GNIS (Geographical Names Information System from USGS)
• WildCAD - Master list of WildCAD sites 
• Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
  
• AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
• Wildfire Intel Discussion Forum for California 
• Alert Wild Fire - List of PG&E and other private webcams
• GOES-West Satellite  Image Viewer. Good for smokes
  
• California Smoke Report
• WildCAD - Inyo forest and others Includes information on incidents and resources. 
  
• NWCG Publications 
• Basic Land Navigation PMS475 
• Fire Behavior PMS437 
• Fireline Behavior Appendix B-Fire Behavior PMS410-2
• Understanding National Fire Danger Rating System PMS932
• Glossaries:
• National Forest Service Glossary of Fire Terminology 
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary
• WebCams 
• Buck Rock 1
• Buck Rock 2
  
• PG&E WebCam close to Mt Sampson 
• ALERTCalifornia webcams for cameras in our area. 
  

View from Buck Rock Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org

 From HeyWhatsThat.com, views captured from Google Earth showing what can be seen from Buck Rock Lookout.The red shading is what is visible from Buck Rock.

The South East view does not seem right as I could swear we could see a lot more than what is shown.

Buck Rock to the NorthEast

Buck Rock to the NorthWest

Buck Rock to the SouthEast

Buck Rock to theSouthWest

Lookout Useful Links: Park Ridge

Park Ridge Lookout
(36.7835571, -118.9451078) 

Below are some of the useful links I have found in connection to being a volunteer fire lookout:

Twice a day Park Ridge needs to listen in on reports and note things in its log. Here are links which will provide the information for these reports:

• Listening In
• 1000 - Weather and Staffing
• Sequoia Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700
• Staffing - Check right before the 1000 report as it is being updated constantly.
• 1045 - SEKI/Ash Mountain Fire Staffing
• Staffing - Check right before the 1045 report as it is being updated constantly.
• Go to Resource Status
  
• 1600 - Indices and Weather
• Indices -  Check right before the 1000 report
• Sequoia Fire Weather - Usually is updated by1400

• Weather
• Fire Weather
• Sequoia
• Sierra
• Yosemite
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather
• NOAA Weather Station (data): Park Ridge (PRGC1) Utah's
• Mesowest from Utah Sensors for California-change sensors to All Networks
• APRS: Grant Grove (NR6G-13)
  
•  Lightning Map
• Lightning: Close by from WeatherBug (Centered on Park Ridge)
• From EarthWorks - Needs a sign on
• Go to the Sferic Map
• You will need to sign onto the user
• Check the map for the Delilah area.
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart for 5,000-9,100'-caution the wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (pdf)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-May, June, July (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-August, September, October (pdf)
• Probability of Ignition (pdf)
  
• Sequoia National Forest
•  WildCAD  Includes information on incidents and resources.(Sequoia NF only)
• CCICC (Central California Interagency Command Center) web links
•  Sierra National
• WildCAD   Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)
• Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
• WildCAD - Includes information on incidents and resources. (SEKI only)
• Fire Information
•  InciWeb California - Presents a map of the US where you can drill down. Look for the fire icons
• CalFire Current Incidents
• NIFC
• Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
•   National Preparadiness Levels:
• Actual
• Other
• Yosemite
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook page
• California Fire Tracker - The San Francisco Chronicle maintains an interactive map of current and past fires.
• #FireMapper - ArcGIS Firemapping of hot spots. You will need to move around the map to where you want to see. 
• CalTopo Fire Map-use Park Ridge Lat/Long(36.7835571, -118.9451078) and click on Fire History or Fire Activity 
  
• Large Forest Service Fires-Historical documents-an FTP Site
• General
• Northern California Fires
• Southern California Fires
  
• Incident Response  Pocket Guide - PMS461, April 2018  (pdf)
• Lookout Information
• Buck Rock Foundation  
• Topo Map of the area (Google Drive, pdf, 405MB)
• Azimuth from Park Ridge (Google Drive, xls, 935Kb  )
• Air Quality
•  List of Monitor sites
• Buck Rock Lookout (Delilah, Park Ridge and Buck Rock) Area. Dates may need to be adjusted to the current date
  
• Trimmer (USFS 1043 )
• Grant Grove/Hume (SEKI1032 EBAM4 )
•  SEKI/General's Highway/Ash Mountain (SEKI1002 EBAM5)
• Obsolete sites
•  Porterville (NPS SEKI-BAM:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Porterville (SEKI1002 EBAM5:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Springville (1045Springville EBAM:36045 Highway 190, Springville, CA 93265)
• Three Rivers (SEKI1000 EBAM4:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA)
•  General's Highway (SEKI1003 EBAM6:Generals Highway, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia NP)
• Pinehurst (50 Pinehurst BAM:Pinehurst, California) 
• Three Rivers area (NPS4 eBAM) No longer in use
  
• Three Rivers (SEKI1001 EBAM3:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA) No longer in use
• Prather (USFS1016)  No longer in use
• North Fork (USFS 1013)  No longer in use
•  
• Pinhurst Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring 
• Grant Grove Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring
• Purple Air -graphical map of air quality
  
•  Air Now
• AirNow - Smoke Report - From Delilah Lookout
•  Misc
• GNIS (Geographical Names Information System from USGS)
• WildCAD - Master list of WildCAD sites 
• Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
  
• AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
• Wildfire Intel Discussion Forum for California 
• Alert Wild Fire - List of PG&E and other private webcams
• GOES-West Satellite  Image Viewer. Good for smokes
  
• California Smoke Report
• WildCAD - Inyo forest and others Includes information on incidents and resources. 
  
• NWCG Publications 
• Basic Land Navigation PMS475 
• Fire Behavior PMS437 
• Fireline Behavior Appendix B-Fire Behavior PMS410-2
• Understanding National Fire Danger Rating System PMS932
• Glossaries:
• National Forest Service Glossary of Fire Terminology 
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary
• WebCam 
• PG&E WebCam close to Mt Sampson 
• ALERTCalifornia webcams for cameras in our area. 
  

View from Park Ridge Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org

Wendy G's diagram showing populated areas

From HeyWhatsThat.com, views captured from Google Earth showing what can be seen from Park Ridge Lookout.The red shading is what is visible from Park Ridge.

Note-Some of the shading does not look right.

Park Ridge to the NorthEast

Park Ridge to the NorthWest

Park Ridge to the South East

Park Ridge to the SouthWest

Lookout Useful Links: Delilah

Delilah Lookout
(36.8041141, -119.1187255) 

Below are some of the useful links Gary has found in connection to being a volunteer fire lookout at Delilah:

• Listening In
• 1000 - Weather and Staffing
• Fire Weather-looks like we can access direct. If not, look below under Weather
  
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 6/20/24 for it.
• 1600 - Indices and Weather
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to access this report.Be sure to look at the current date's tab.
  
• Fire Weather-looks like we can access direct. If not, look below under Weather
  

• Weather
• Fire Weather:All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. 
• 
  
  In May 2023, NOAA changed how fire weather was accessed. Steps to getting to fire weather:
• Click on the link above
• Wait until the California map resolves with the boundary lines.
• Look directly east of Fresno. Hover over the ECCDA: 22 Ash Mountain.
• Click that one.
• Fire Weather for the lookouts should appear.
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno
•  NOAA Weather Station (data): Delilah (NR6G-12) Utah's MesoWest
•  APRS (Station Information): Delilah (NR6G-12) May not be active due to lack of WiFi (5/1/2021)
• NWS Point Forecast based upon Delilah's Lat/Long
  
• Lightning Map
• from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah)
• From EarthWorks - Needs a sign on
  
• Go to the Sferic Map
• You will need to sign onto the user
• Check the map for the Delilah area.
• Convection Forecast-that is lightning, from today and two days out.
   
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• PG&E Weather Stations
   
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart this is a full set for all elevations. Look for 3,901'-6,500' for Delilah, starting on page 13. Use the numbers in red. The wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (pdf)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (web page)
• Probability of Ignition (web page) 
•  Sequoia National Forest
•  WildCAD-E  Includes information on incidents and resources.(Sequoia NF only) 
• Resource Status.  It should go directly to the Resource Status page. If not, then, on the upper left side are three bars. Click on it and look for Resource Status. This will show who is in service for the Forest, but it will not show the aircraft information.
   
• CCICC (Central California Interagency Command Center) web links
  
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 6/20/24 for it.
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to access this report.
•  Sierra National
• WildCAD-E   Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

 WildCAD-E - Includes information on incidents and resources. (SEKI only) ;

Fire Information

•  InciWeb USA - Presents a map of the US where you can drill down. Look for the fire icons
• CalFire Current Incidents
• NIFC
• Southern California Geographic Coordination Center - Lots of interesting stuff, concerning the area which CCICC belongs to.
• Predictive Service Area (PSA) Charts and USFS Year-Around Stations Charts - has ERC and BI information, but I cannot translate into what Porterville We are in SC03. Fence is SC02
  
• Outlooks - has several dumps fo ERC and BI information, along with predictions. But not 435 and 438.
• National Preparadiness Levels:
• Actual with explanation of what the levels mean
  
• Other
• Yosemite
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook page
• California Fire Tracker - The San Francisco Chronicle maintains an interactive map of current and past fires.
• #FireMapper - ArcGIS Firemapping of hot spots. You will need to move around the map to where you want to see. (Version 3.1)
• WatchDuty - Concentrates on bigger fires. Is popular during Summer of 2024
  
• Map O Fire - Seems like it is a duplicate of Fire Mapper
  
• CalTopo Fire Map-use Delilah Lat/Long(36.8041141, -119.1187255) and click on Fire History or Fire Activity 
• Capital Radio Fire History Map - more oriented towards how fires have changed over the decades.
• NWS Fire Danger Indices for the San Joaquin Valley area. Does not include 435 or 438, but areas close to us.
  
• Large Federal Fires-Historical documents-an FTP Site
• General
• Northern California Fires
• Southern California Fires - we are in the Southern California area
  
• Federal Wildfire Incidences-CalFire (ftp)
  
• Incident Response  Pocket Guide - PMS461, April 2018  (pdf)

Delilah Lookout Information

• Buck Rock Foundation  
• Background on Delilah
  

Air Quality

• Pinhurst Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring 
• Grant Grove Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring
• Purple Air -graphical map of air quality
  
•  Air Now - put in Dunlap, CA
  
• AirNow - Smoke Report - From Delilah Lookout
• Blue Sky Smoke - both current and short term projection patterns
  

Misc

• GNIS (Geographical Names Information System from USGS)
• Forest Service Topo Maps - specialized USGS maps with Forest Service References
  
• WildCAD - Master list of WildCAD sites 
• Mesowest from Utah Sensors for California-change sensors to All Networks-also near our locality
  
• MesoWest-Grant Grove
• MesoWest-Buck Rock
• MesoWest-Park Ridge
  
• MesoWest-Big Meadows
• MesoWest-Beartrap Meadow
• MesoWest-Millwood Road South of 180
• MesoWest-Sontag Point/Hang Glider
  
• MesoWest-Lodgepole Campground 
• MesoWest-Giant Forest
• MesoWest-Cedar Grove
  
• Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
  
• AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
• Wildfire Intel Discussion Forum for California 
• Alert Wild Fire - List of PG&E and other private webcams
• GOES-West Satellite  Image Viewer. Good for smokes
  
• California Smoke Report
  
• NWCG Publications 
• Basic Land Navigation PMS475 
• Fire Behavior PMS437 
• Fireline Behavior Appendix B-Fire Behavior PMS410-2
• Understanding National Fire Danger Rating System PMS932

Glossaries:

• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary   (PMS205)
  
•  National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) Common Terms
  

National Museum of Forest Service History
 

Web Cam Views

Delilah 1

Delilah 2 - rotating

ALERTCalifornia webcams for cameras in our area.

For more lookout information, go to my General Lookout Page:



View from Delilah Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org 


From HeyWhatsThat.com, views captured from Google Earth showing what can be seen from Delilah Lookout.The red shading is what is visible from Delilah.

Delilah to the NorthEast

Delilah to the NorthWest

Delilah to the SouthEast

Delilah to the SouthWest

Fire Lookout: Useful Links

Each of the lookouts which I am associated with have a seperate entry which are tailored to each lookout. The current entry has all of those and more. The lookout links are:

• Delilah
• Park Ridge
• Buck Rock

Below are some of the useful links I have found in connection to being a volunteer fire lookout:

• Weather
• Fire Weather
• Sequoia
• Sierra
• Yosemite
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather
• Lightning Map
• from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah)
• From EarthWorks - Needs a sign on
• Go to the Sferic Map
• You will need to sign onto the user
• Check the map for the Delilah area.
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart for 5,000-9,100'-caution the wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (pdf)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-May, June, July (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-August, September, October (pdf)
• Probability of Ignition (pdf)
  
• CCICC Daily Report including Indicies-On SharePoint
• FINDU Weather Stations
• Delilah (NR6G-12) Does not have recent data as of May 1, 2021
  
•  Park Ridge Lookout (IRLP-8120)   Does not have recent data as of June 1, 2017)
• Grant Grove (NR6G-13)
• APRS Stations
• Delilah (NR6G-12)  Does not have recent data as of May 1, 2021
• Park Ridge Lookout (IRLP-8120)   Does not have recent data as of June 1, 2017)
• Grant Grove (NR6G-13)
• Fresno Weather (Weather Underground) 
• Staffing
• CCICC Staffing -  Shows staffing for Sequoia National Forest on Google Calc
• SEKI Staffing - from WildCad. Select Resource Status
•  
• Fire Information
• InciWeb
• California
• Sierra National Forest
• Sequoia National Forest
• Inyo National Forest
• SEKI
• YOSE
•  SEKI Incidences - from WildCad. Select the appropriate incident tab for your needs
• SEKI Daily Report  (Not available)
• Yosemite Fire
• YOSE Fire update
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook 
• SWFRS - Sierra NevadaWildland Reporting System
• NICC - National Interagency Coordination Center 
• CCICC - Central California Interagency Communication Center 
• WildCAD
• CCICC Reports, including  Fire Codes, Lighting, Indices, Staffing, Pocket cards
• CalFire Current Incidents
• Fire Tracker 89.3 KPCC
• YubaNet - big fires in California
• Air Quality
• List of Monitor sites
• Buck Rock Lookout (Delilah, Park Ridge and Buck Rock) Area
•  Pinehurst (50 Pinehurst BAM:Pinehurst, California)
•  Porterville (NPS SEKI-BAM:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Porterville (SEKI1002 EBAM5:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Springville (1045Springville EBAM:36045 Highway 190, Springville, CA 93265)
• Three Rivers (SEKI1000 EBAM4:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA)
• Three Rivers (SEKI1001 EBAM3:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA) General's Highway (SEKI1003 EBAM6:Generals Highway, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia N)
• Yosemite
•  El Portal (NPS YOS1002 Ebam:Foresta Rd, El Portal, CA 95318)
• Wawona (NPS YOS1003 Ebam:207 Wawona Rd, California 95389, USA)
• Other
• Oakhurst (1013 Oakhurst:40641 Westlake Drive, Oakhurst, CA 93644, USA)
• Mammoth Lakes (1027 DEPO:John Muir Trail, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546, USA)
• Forest/Park Information
• General WildCAD to other jurisdiction
• Sierra NF
• WildCAD
• Sequoia NF
• WildCAD  (CCCICC)
• CCICC - Central California Interagency Communication Center 
• SEKI
• WildCAD
• Yosemite
• Lookout Information 
• Azimuths from Lookout to a location (Spreadsheet on Goole Doc)
• Buck Rock
• Buck Rock Foundation 
• Topo Map of the area (Not active yet)
• Azimuth from Buck Rock (Google Drive, xls, 1Mb)
• Lightning Map from WeatherBug (Centered on Park Ridge)  




View from Buck Rock Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org



• Park Ridge
• Buck Rock Foundation  
• Topo Map of the area (Google Drive, pdf, 405MB)
• Azimuth from Park Ridge (Google Drive, xls, 935Kb  )
• Lightning Map from WeatherBug (Centered on Park Ridge) 




View from Park Ridge Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org



• Delilah
• Buck Rock Foundation  
• Topo Map of the area (Google Drive, pdf, 556MB)
• Azimuth from Delilah (Google Drive, xlxs, 324kb)
• Lightning Map from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah)




View from Delilah Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org

• Geographical Information
• GNIS
•  
• Misc
• Webcams in the Sierra's
• California Smoke Report
• National Forest Service Glossary of Fire Terminology
• National Forests in California-2017 Storm Damaged Roads