1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fire Weather Development Act of 2024 . 2. Fire weather forecasting and detection (a) Establishment The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall establish a program (in this Act referred to as the Program ) to improve fire weather and fire environment forecasting, detection, and delivery of products or services through collaboration with Federal and State agencies or departments, local emergency mangers, and relevant entities. (b) Goals The goals of the Program shall be to develop and improve accurate fire weather and fire environment forecasts and warnings in order to reduce loss of life, reduce injuries, protect property, and reduce damage to the economy from wildfires. The Program shall seek to improve the assessment of fire weather and fire environments, the understanding and prediction of wildfires, and the communications regarding such assessments with State and local emergency officials in a timely and streamlined fashion, with a focus on improving the following: (1) The prediction of ignition, intensification and spread of wildfires. (2) The observation and monitoring of fire weather and fire environments. (3) The forecast and communication of smoke dispersion from wildfires. (4) Information dissemination and risk communication to develop more effective watch and warning products relating to wildfires. (5) The early detection of wildfires, including pre-ignition analysis and ground condition characterizations. (6) The development, testing, and deployment of novel tools and techniques related to understanding, monitoring, and predicting fire weather and fire environments. (7) The understanding and association of climate change and its impacts on fire weather and fire environments. (8) The unique characteristics, including observation or modeling requirements, related to fires at the wildland-urban interface. (9) The forecasting and understanding of the impacts of prescribed burns (as such term is defined in section 2 of the