The Southwest Coordination
Center (SWCC) is the interagency focal
point for coordinating the mobilization of resources
between the twelve Federal and State Dispatch
Centers of
the Southwest
Area and, when necessary, the National
Coordination Center in
Boise, ID, for assignment throughout the nation. Located
in Albuquerque, NM, the SWCC mobilizes resources for
wildland fire, prescribed fire, and
other all-risk incidents. In addition, the Center provides
Predictive Services and Intelligence related-products
in support of incident management decision-making for
wildland fire managers and on-the-ground wildland firefighters.
As
such, this website is designed for the purpose of posting products
and services produced by the SWCC in support of wildland fire operations
and management. It
is not intended to be a wildland fire information website providing continuous
updates for specific wildland fire incidents. See
our site
disclaimer.
There
are five primary components to the SWCC website.
The Incident
Information component
of the website is provided as a service to the public, providing general
information and links on large wildland fires, fire restrictions
and closures, and other relevant information to the general public
and news media.
The Predictive Services component
is the decision support section of the site designed to provide
operational products and services to the wildland fire manager. Primary
areas of support include (1) Intelligence (i.e.
situation, mapping, and firefighting resources), (2) Fire Weather (i.e.
current weather conditions, models, and forecasts), (3) Fuels / Fire
Danger (i.e. NFDRS, live fuel moisture, WFAS, NDVI), and (4) Outlooks
(i.e. daily fire behavior forecasts, and weekly and monthly fire weather
/ fire danger outlooks) .
The Logistics / Dispatch component is designed
to provide operational and managerial services specific
to aviation, crews, equipment and supplies, and overhead (includes
Incident Management Teams).
The Administrative component is
designed to assist the wildland fire manager, providing various tools
in incident business, safety, software, and training in order to make
fire management programs work. Under this heading also includes a link
to the Southwest Coordinating Group (SWCG) website and committees.
The Related Links component is for locating other incident related websites within the Southwest Area and nationally.
