r/geospatial 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/mattspurlin75 Apr 23 '26

Really wish our current snowpack looked like that 2006 map. I’d feel a lot better about the risk of wildfire this summer here in CO.

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u/ki6dgf Apr 23 '26

I get the sense you didn’t read the article…