California-4-Year-Wildfires-Dashboard

Overview

California 4-Year Wildfires Dashboard is a dynamic web application hosted on GitHub Pages, designed to compare wildfire statistics among various counties in California from the years 2017 to 2020. This interactive dashboard utilizes maps and charts for intuitive data visualization, providing users with valuable insights into the number, size, and causes of wildfires.

The wildfire data used for this project is sourced from the sixth edition of the 2.3 million US wildfires database available on Kaggle.

Technologies utilized

Backend

• Python
• SQLite, SQL Alchemy
• D3.js, Flask

Frontend

• Plotly
• Bootstrap

Javascript libraries

• Leaflet.markercluster - For marker clustering on the Leaflet maps.
• Leaflet.heat - To visualize wildfire intensity using heatmaps on Leaflet maps.
• Leaflet.choropleth - To create choropleth maps on Leaflet and visualize wildfires in each county.
• Leaflet.awesome-markers- For using custom markers on Leaflet maps.
• Leaflet.Legend - For adding legends to the Leaflet maps.

Attribution

Special thanks to Vecteezy and muh for the images used in this project.

• webpage icon: by Vecteezy
• webpage background: by muh

Happy exploring California's wildfires over the past four years!