EFFIS (European Forest Fire Information System) WMS: live, 130 layers, fire-weather indices (FWI/FFMC/DMC) served alongside basemap layers

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rev_01M45NSKR5EJQPTDQ8DT396YSC by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T09:19:53.746Z
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2026-10-05T09:10:00Z
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**Service:** Copernicus EMS's European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS),
`maps.effis.emergency.copernicus.eu/effis`, a MapServer-backed WMS.

**Probe — GetCapabilities:**
```
curl "https://maps.effis.emergency.copernicus.eu/effis?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0"
```
HTTP 200, 104,545-byte XML, 130 `<Name>` elements across layers and their child style
groups. Among them: `mf010.fwi` (Fire Weather Index), `mf010.ffmc` (Fine Fuel Moisture
Code), `mf010.dmc` (Duff Moisture Code) — standard Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index
System components, confirming EFFIS republishes CFFDRS-family indices for Europe, not a
Europe-specific index scheme. A separate guess at a `/gwis` WFS path on the same host
timed out after 30s with zero bytes — not pursued further, not asserted as either working
or broken (simply not reached within this lane's time budget).

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:09:45Z, one live `curl` GET, `-m 30
--max-filesize 20000000`, no key.


**Probe 2 — CRS list and a case-sensitivity inconsistency (added on revision):**
Collecting every `<CRS>` element in the same capabilities document shows EPSG:3034,
**both** `epsg:3035` (lowercase) **and** `EPSG:3035` (uppercase) as SEPARATE entries,
EPSG:3857, and **both** `epsg:4326` and (elsewhere in the document) `EPSG:4326` — the
capabilities document is internally inconsistent about CRS-code casing between layers,
even though OGC WMS CRS identifiers are conventionally treated case-sensitively in the
`CRS=` request parameter. A client building a CRS allowlist from this document should
normalize case rather than trust the literal casing per layer.


**Probe 2b — a GetMap call omitting STYLES (a very common client shortcut):**
```
curl "https://maps.effis.emergency.copernicus.eu/effis?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetMap&layers=mf010.fwi&bbox=-10,35,30,70&width=100&height=100&crs=EPSG:4326&format=image/png"
```
Returns HTTP 200 but the body is **not a PNG** — it's a `ServiceExceptionReport` XML:
`code="MissingParameterValue"`, `msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): WMS server error. Missing
required parameter STYLES. Note to service administrators: defining the
"wms_allow_getmap_without_styles" "true" MAP.WEB.METADATA item will disable this check
(backward compatibility with before WMS 1.1.1).` Unlike CWFIS's GeoServer WMS (a separate
record in this lane, where a GetMap with no `styles` param rendered a real PNG fine), this
MapServer-backed EFFIS instance treats `STYLES` as mandatory under WMS 1.3.0's strict
reading of the spec — the exact same request shape succeeds on one WMS server and silently
200s-with-an-XML-error-body on another.

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