The National Weather Service provides local fire weather forecasts, including issuing fire weather watches and red flag warnings. These forecasts are based on variables such as wind, relative humidity, stability, lightning, precipitation and fuel dryness. These forecasts are on the National Fire Weather Web page.

The Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) is currently based on weather observations taken at fire weather stations throughout the U.S. and entered into the Weather Information Management System (WIMS). National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) calculations are done at the National Computer Center at Kansas City (NCC-KC). The fuel model, index, and fire danger levels are set by local managers. National WFAS maps are produced from fire danger levels.

The Predictive Services Unit at the National Interagency Coordination Center and the Geographic Area Coordination Center provides current wildland fire information and a number of outlook products, including the 7-Day Significant Fire Potential Outlook, and daily, monthly and seasonal forecasts and trends. Both National and Geographic Area products can be accessed from the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC).

The USFS's Remote Sensing Applications Center generates regional maps for the US fire managers using the active fire locations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) Rapid Response System. Maps cover the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Canada.

The Web Fire Mapper at the University of Maryland provides access to current and archived fire locations detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) Rapid Response System. Other fire related information is also available on this web site.