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Wildfire Ignition/Perimeter Feed (InciWeb + NIFC)

count/acreage of new active wildfire incidents near WUI (wildland-urban interface) zip codes

Feed detail
Measures
count/acreage of new active wildfire incidents near WUI (wildland-urban interface) zip codes
Source
NIFC National Interagency Fire Center InciWeb RSS + geomac/NIFC GeoJSON perimeter data
Access
json-api
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
New ignitions near high-value WUI housing (Malibu, Paradise-adjacent, Colorado Front Range) precede insurer non-renewal waves and CA FAIR Plan growth by months
Maps to
CA/CO/OR wildfire-exposed insurers, utility wildfire liability (PCG, EIX)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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