| InciWeb | |
| Company Type: | all-risk incident web information management system |
| Area Served: | United States |
| Industry: | web information management system |
| Launch Date: | 2004 |
InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident web information management system provided by the United States Forest Service released in 2004.[1] It was originally developed for wildland fire emergencies, but can be also used for other emergency incidents (natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes).[2]
It was developed with two primary missions:
Official announcements include evacuations, road closures, news releases, maps, photographs, and basic info and current situation about the incident.
Incident information can be accessed by:
The original application was hosted at the United States Forest Service - Wildland Fire Training and Conference Center, at McClellan Airfield, California, comprising three servers:
Web traffic averages 2 million plus hits daily during the fire season with the ability to handle 3.5 million hits.
The servers were moved to the National information Technology Center (NITC),[5] Kansas City, Missouri on July 16, 2008, along with the release of version 2.0;[6] the current version is 2.2.
InciWeb was having technical difficulties due to the high volume of Internet users trying to access the site during the September–October 2006 Day Fire[7] and the Summer 2008 California wildfires.[8]
These same agencies are also in the National Interagency Fire Center.