How to Build a Wildfire and Disaster Alert Monitor

Natural disasters demand real-time information. This guide shows you how to build a monitoring system that scrapes wildfire data, weather alerts, and emergency feeds to keep communities informed. Architecture Overview Our monitor pulls data from three sources: NASA FIRMS (fire data), NOAA weather alerts, and local emergency management websites. We aggregate everything into a single alerting pipeline. Core Scraper pip install requests beautifulsoup4 geopy schedule import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from datetime import datetime from geopy.distance import geodesic class DisasterMonitor : def __init__ ( self , api_key , lat , lon , radius_km = 100 ): self . api_key = api_key self . center = ( lat , lon ) self . radius = radius_km self . alerts = [] def check_nasa_firms ( self ): url = " https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/area/csv " params = { " source " : " VIIRS_SNPP_NRT " , " area_coords " : f " { self . center [ 1 ] - 1 } , { self . center [ 0 ] - 1 } , { self . center