Sec. 13. Predicting where wildfires will start
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The Secretaries, in coordination with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, acting through the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Secretary of Energy, through the capabilities and assets located at the National Laboratories, shall establish and maintain a system to predict the locations of future wildfires for fire-prone areas of the United States, to be known as the Fire Danger Assessment System (referred to in this section as the System ).
The System shall use a combination of soil moisture levels, precipitation patterns, topography, fuels growth and availability, ignition risks, and temperatures to calculate probabilities of wildfires igniting or burning in fire-prone areas of the United States. Not later than May 1, 2019, the Secretaries shall use the System for purposes of developing any wildland fire potential forecasts.