FirePulse: Wildfire Alerts GR

FirePulse — A live picture of wildfires in Greece, 24/7.

ℹ️ Independent app: FirePulse does NOT represent, is NOT affiliated with and is NOT endorsed by any government body (Hellenic Fire Service, Civil Protection/112, EU). It aggregates publicly available information. In an emergency ALWAYS call 112.

🛰️ SATELLITE DETECTIONS
• NASA FIRMS (VIIRS & MODIS): thermal hotspots across the country, coloured by freshness.
• FireHub (National Observatory of Athens): active hotspots in near real time (~5-15 min).

🚒 OFFICIAL SOURCES
• Hellenic Fire Service announcements for forest fires, with their status (in progress / partially / fully contained), placed on the map.
• 112 alerts: the evacuation messages themselves on the map, with push even when the app is closed — and navigation to the safe location when one is given. Consecutive messages of the same fire are grouped so the LATEST instruction stands out.
• Daily fire-risk map of the General Secretariat for Civil Protection.

🌬️ WIND EVERYWHERE
• Real measurements (meteo.gr, airport METAR) and Open-Meteo forecast at every hotspot, at your location and at the map centre — because in a fire, wind is everything.

☁️ SPREAD ESTIMATE
• Tap a fire inside a covered area and see estimate zones for up to 6 hours — from the scientific ELMFIRE model (15 scenarios), with real wind, terrain and the national fuel map of Greece.
• In strong wind the horizon is limited to 4 hours, because the estimate ages faster.
• When a fire is satellite-confirmed, zones are shared automatically with everyone.
• An automatic ESTIMATE — NOT a prediction. Never a basis for evacuation decisions; always follow 112 and the authorities.

🎯 WHERE IS THE FIRE?
• See smoke? Aim at it with the camera — the app estimates its position on the terrain and shows it on the map, with distance in km.

📷 CITIZEN REPORT
• Aim with the camera and send — after an automatic image check it appears to everyone as an "unconfirmed" pin for 2 hours. Your photo is NEVER published and is deleted after 30 days. No sign-up.

🆘 SURVIVAL MODE
• Opens automatically when an active fire is detected near you: torch, whistle, 112 call, course compass, official protection instructions.

🗺️ ALSO
• Alarm-grade alert when a fire approaches your saved locations (home, holiday house).
• New: optional "Area fire-proneness" layer — a long-term statistical estimate from a scientific study (FIRE-RES 2025), NOT today's danger level.
• Live road traffic, weather cameras, source filters, and a built-in base map that works even without a signal.

📌 OFFICIAL SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
• Hellenic Fire Service: https://www.fireservice.gr and https://x.com/pyrosvestiki
• 112 alerts: https://x.com/112Greece
• General Secretariat for Civil Protection (daily risk map): https://civilprotection.gov.gr
Other sources: NASA FIRMS https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov · FireHub/NOA https://firehub.beyond-eocenter.eu · Fuel map: Palaiologou et al. 2025, FIRE-RES (Horizon 2020), CC BY 4.0, https://zenodo.org/records/17579289

⚠️ FirePulse is an independent INFORMATIONAL tool — it does not represent any government body and does not replace the authorities. In an emergency ALWAYS call 112.

Recent changes:
🆕 New optional "Area fire-proneness" layer: see how often each area of Greece statistically burns (FIRE-RES 2025 scientific study). Enable it from the legend ("ΕΠ") — it does not show today's danger.
ℹ️ A notice now appears when the official incidents page is temporarily down.
✍️ Clearer and more accurate texts in the zones legend, alerts and user guide.
🔧 Minor visual fixes.