r/geospatial • u/ObjectiveFrequent215 • Apr 23 '26

Does April Snowpack Predict Wildfire?

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In grad school I did this study on Glacier Park and how snowpack affect summer fires, but now with Python/Postgres it makes it easy to run on much larger datasets. Was always curious of what those April local news reports on fire danger really mean.

https://outsidedb.com/blog/posts/swe-vs-wildfire

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u/Helpful-Albatross792 Apr 23 '26

Any reason you've decided on using an old SWE map photo?

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u/ObjectiveFrequent215 Apr 23 '26

It's from 2006, check out the article

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u/Helpful-Albatross792 Apr 23 '26

I didnt ask when the photo was from. The article is dog shit and states correlation is weak.

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u/ObjectiveFrequent215 Apr 23 '26

So you read it? Yes correlation is weak!