ODIN-fire News 2026

Fire Environment Mapping System (FEMS) station import added04/11/2026

We now can import Fire Environment Mapping System (FEMS) station data, which includes some 3400 weather stations in the US. This does not only provide weather information but also various National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) data that will serve as input for upcoming fire behavior simulator integration.

You can find the code in the odin_fems crate and documentation in the odin_fems section of the ODIN book. There also is a screen shot for the visual representation in the sensor section of the screen shot gallery.

Global Weather Models and Australian Demo03/06/2026

With the addition of the odin_openmeteo crate we can now import various weather models beyond NOAA HRRR (which is only available in CONUS). The Open-Meteo site supports several global data models (including GFS and ECMWF). The odin_wind crate has been updated so that we can now run WindNinja with other weather models and around the globe.

The primary motivation for this was the addition of odin_live_aus - a demo example for Australia. To show ODIN's extensibility we also include import of near realtime bushfire perimeter data from Geoscience Australia. See the gallery for a screen shot.

Himawari Satellites01/02/2026

We now have support to import and display the wildfire (hotspot) data product for the geostationary Himawari satellites which cover Australia, New Zealand and most of Asia. Accessing the data product requires a (free) account on the JAXA FTP server which provides updates in a 10min interval (and 30-40min latency).

This is implemented in the new "odin_himawari" ODIN application domain crate (odin-rs/odin_himawari). You can find screen shots in the satellites section of our gallery (scroll down to "Himawari hotspots" entries) and the crate documentation in the odin_himawari section of the ODIN documentation.