(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
- New Prototype IDSS Weather Forecast based upon Delilah's Lat/Long (9/20/25)
- Lightning Map
- from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah)
- Wildfire Enterprise Geospatial Portal (EGP)- Needs a sign on
- Convection Forecast-that is lightning, from today and two days out.
- National Weather Service
- 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
- Sierra National
- WildCAD-E Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)
- 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
- EGP - Enterprise Geospatial Portal - National Parks and Forest personnel uses this map. Shws fires, weather station, web cams and other things of interest. (9/20/25)
- 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)
- Buck Rock Foundation
- Background on Delilah
- 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
- NWS Hanford Smoke Forecast -a 10-15 second visual of projected smoke patterns
- 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
- New Prototype Point Forecast from NWS
- IDSS Weather Forecast based upon Delilah's Lat/Long (9/20/25)
- IDSS Weather Forecast based upon Park Ridge's Lat/Long (9/20/25)
- IDSS Weather Forecast based upon Buck Rock's Lat/Long (9/20/25)
- Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
- AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
- ADS-B Exchange - Another AirCraft Tracker.
- 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
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary (PMS205)
- National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) Common Terms
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.
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