If you attended one of our Fall 2025 OK-FIRE workshops, please take a moment to complete the post-workshop survey below. Thank you!
Workshop training videos for self-paced learning of the OK-FIRE system are now available in the “Contacts and Learning Tools” section of the website and can be found within the “Workshop Training Videos” subsection. The videos, extensively edited over the course of a year, are recordings from the OK-FIRE virtual workshop that occurred over two consecutive afternoons in December 2022.
Free training workshops will be offered this fall for both new and experienced users of OK-FIRE, the statewide weather-based decision support system of the Oklahoma Mesonet for wildland fire management with applications to wildfire, prescribed fire, and smoke. Dr. J. D. Carlson, OK-FIRE program manager and fire meteorologist in OSU’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, will conduct the training. Workshops will be held in a virtual format over Zoom from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., spanning two consecutive afternoons in October, November, and December:
Free training workshops will be offered this fall for both new and experienced users of OK-FIRE, the statewide weather-based decision support system of the Oklahoma Mesonet for wildland fire management, having applications to wildfire, prescribed fire, and smoke. Dr. J. D. Carlson, OK-FIRE program manager and fire meteorologist in OSU's Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, will conduct the training. Workshops will be held in a virtual format over Zoom from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., spanning two consecutive afternoons in October, November, and December:
Over the past number of years, updates have been made to four OSU Extension publications related to prescribed burning and smoke management:
Now that we are in the dormant fire season, our normally most active time for wildfires, I wanted to remind new and old OK-FIRE users that updated training materials for self-paced learning are located in the "Contacts and Learning Tools" section (see left menu) of the website. These updates reflect the new fire danger model that was made public on June 3, 2020. The new fire danger model utilizes new satellite data at higher spatial resolution (500 m) than before (1 km) as well as a revised fuel model map with the same higher resolution (500 m).
We are happy to announce that a new update of OK-FIRE was released on February 3 that provides faster access to output from the fire danger model used in OK-FIRE. As many of you are aware, since we switched to the new fire danger model in June 2020, download times for output from the fire danger model (e.g., Burning Index, 1-hr dead fuel moisture) have been much slower (extremely slow in some cases) than before we switched to the new model. The reason for this is that the data files for the new model have been residing in the "cloud" and not on local servers.
We are happy to announce that our new higher-resolution fire danger model is now operational on the OK-FIRE website. This model has been developed over the past five years and utilizes different satellite data and a revised fuel model map.
Operational since 2006, OK-FIRE is a weather-based decision-support system for wildland fire management. OK-FIRE uses the Oklahoma Mesonet for current/recent conditions and an 84-hour forecast to predict fire weather, fire danger, and smoke dispersion conditions out to three days in the future.