First, we would like to thank the wildland fire advisory group. Their wisdom and guidance helped us build the dataset as it currently exists. This dataset is comprised of two different zip files. Zip File 1: The data within this zip file are composed of two wildland fire datasets. (1) A merged dataset consisting of 40 different wildfire and prescribed fire layers. The original 40 layers were all freely obtained from the internet or provided to the authors free of charge with permission to use them. The merged layers were altered to contain a consistent set of attributes including names, IDs, and dates. This raw merged dataset contains all original polygons many of which are duplicates of the same fire. This dataset also contains all the errors, inconsistencies, and other issues that caused some of the data to be excluded from the combined dataset. Care should be used when working with this dataset as individual records may contain errors that can be more easily identified in the ...

In 2024, there were a total of 64,897 wildland fires recorded in the United States. This represents an increase of roughly 14 percent from the previous year. That year, California was the state with the highest number of wildfires in the United States.

These data were used to examine how post-fire sedimentation might change in western USA watersheds with future fire from the decade of 2001-10 through 2041-50. The data include previously published projections (Hawbaker and Zhu, 2012a, b) of areas burned by future wildfires for several climate change scenarios and general circulation models (GCMs) that we summarized for 471 watersheds of the western USA. The data also include previously published predictions (Miller et al., 2011) of first year post-fire hillslope soil erosion from GeoWEPP that we summarized for 471 watersheds of the western USA. We synthesized these summarized data in order to project sediment yield from future fires for 471 watersheds through the year 2050 at the hydrologic unit 8 (HUC8) scale. The detailed methods, results, and original data sources (i.e.: Hawbaker and Zhu, 2012a, b; Miller et al., 2011) were reported in the manuscript.

Wildfire activity in the United States saw a significant increase in 2024, with approximately *** million acres burned. This marks a more than ********* increase from the previous year. Such development boosts the concerning upward trend in wildfire damage across the country that has developed in the past half a century. Humans or lightning? A wildfire can start by natural causes. In 2024, Oregon and Arizona were the states most affected, each with more than *** cases recorded. Nevertheless, human-caused wildfires continue to play a significant role in the overall landscape. In 2024, over ****** wildfires in the U.S. were attributed to human activity, resulting in more than *** million acres burned. Wildfire suppression The financial burden of wildfire suppression remains substantial. The estimated costs of wildfire suppression in the U.S. stood at almost *** million U.S. dollars in 2023, a 13-fold increase in comparison to 1985. As climate change continues to alter weather patterns and create more favorable conditions for wildfires, the need for effective prevention, management, and suppression strategies is becoming increasingly critical.

Based on the FireTracks Scientific Dataset, the global wildfire exposure dataset implements space-time alignment between fire clusters and climate as well as socioeconomic data across the globe from 2002 to 2020. The global wildfire exposure dataset is produced to meet the demand for wildfire exposure and its analysis of global inequity.

The data structure is shown in the following:

• fire_clusters.csv:
  • Contains detailed records of global wildfire clusters, including fire characteristics, geographic distribution, and population exposure.

  • Column	Description	Units	Valid Range	Data Type
    cp	fire component label	-	>=0	int64
    duration	fire duration	days	>= 1	uint16
    maxFRP_sum	sum of maximum fire radiative powers	MW*10	>= 0	float64
    area	total burned area	km^2	>= 0.86 (1 MODIS pixel)	float64
    country	country of occurrence	-	-	string
    continent	continent of occurrence	-	-	string
    dtime_min	ignition date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	>= 2002-01-01	datetime64
    lat_mean	mean location latitude	degrees	[-180, 180]	float64
    lon_mean	mean location longitude	degrees	[-90, 90]	float64
    exposure	primary population exposure to wildfire	persontime	>=0	int64
    5km_band_pop	secondary population exposure to wildfire	persontime	>=0	int64
    year	year of occurrence	-	[2002, 2020]	int64
    month	month of occurrence	-	[1, 12]	int64

• exposure_four_covariate.csv:
  • Aggregates population exposure and covariates for equity-focused analyses, linking wildfire impacts to socioeconomic and climatic drivers.

  • Column	Description	Units	Valid Range	Data Type
    exposure	population exposed to wildfire	persontime	>=0	int64
    year	year of occurrence	-	[2002, 2020]	int64
    country	country of occurrence	-	-	string
    continent	continent of occurrence	-	-	string
    gdp	National Gross Domestic Product for the corresponding year	million U.S. dollars	>=0	float64
    country_pop	national population of the corresponding year	persontime	>=0	int64
    fwi	Fire Weather Index	-	>=0	float32
    vpd	Vapor Pressure Deficit	kPa	[0, 10]	float32
    ndvi	Normalized Difference Vegetation Index	-	[0, 1]	float64
    dnbr	Delta Normalized Burn Ratio	-	[-2, 2]	float64
    iso3	standardized country code for cross-dataset integration	-	-	string
    cluster	results from K-means clustering	-	[0, 2]	int64

Oregon saw the largest area burned by wildfires across the United States in 2024. That year, about 2,232 individual wildfires burned in the northwestern state, ravishing almost 1.89 million acres. Texas followed second, with roughly 1.3 million acres burned due to wildfires that year. Fire season 2021 and California’s wildfire suppression costs As one of the most wildfire-prone states in the country, California spends a significant amount of money on their suppression. Estimates suggest wildfire suppression expenditure in California climbed to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year ending June 2022. The fiscal year, which includes the summer and fall months of 2021, was among the most devastating fire seasons on record, with that year’s Dixie fire becoming the second-largest California wildfire by acres burned. The Dixie fire was responsible for over 963,000 acres burned across the state that year. Wildfire causes Wildfires are uncontrolled fires burning across any type of combustible vegetation such as grass- and brushland, forests, and agricultural fields. They are also referred to as wildland fires, forest fires, or bushfires, with the latter term particularly common in Australia. Wildfires regularly occur on all continents of the world, except for Antarctica, but are particularly common in dry regions with dense vegetation. As the rise in average global temperatures is changing weather patterns and resulting in more and more countries being affected by dry, hot weather conditions, the severity and rapid spread of wildfires have increased in recent years. The most common causes of wildfires are natural phenomena such as lightning strikes as well as human activity. The area burned due to human-caused wildfires in the U.S. surpassed 1.5 million acres in 2023.

Get data on forest fires, compiled annually for the National Forestry Database

The National Forestry Database includes national forest data and forest management statistics to seve as a credible, accurate and reliable source of information on forest management and its impact on the forest resource.

Forest fire data is grouped into eight categories, which are further broken down by geographic location. These include:

• number of fires by cause class and response category
• area burned by cause class and response category
• number of fires by month and response category
• area burned by month and response category
• number of fires by fire size class and response category
• area burned by fire size class and response category
• area burned by productivity class, stocking class, maturity class and response category
• other fire statistics, such as property losses

Wildfires resulted in *** deaths in the United States in 2023. This has been the highest figure since 1990, mostly related to the Maui wildfires in Hawaii. There have been more than *** wildfire-related deaths in the U.S. since 1990.

The FirePerimeter polygon layer represents daily and final mapped wildland fire perimeters. Incidents of 10 acres or greater in size are expected. Incidents smaller than 10 acres in size may also be included. Data are maintained at the Forest/District level, or their equivalent, to track the area affected by wildland fire. Records in FirePerimeter include perimeters for wildland fires that have corresponding records in FIRESTAT, which is the authoritative data source for all wildland fire reports. FIRESTAT, the Fire Statistics System computer application, required by the USFS for all wildland fire occurrences on National Forest System Lands or National Forest-protected lands, is used to enter and maintain information from the Individual Fire Report (FS-5100-29).National USFS fire occurrence final fire perimeters where wildland fires have historically occurred on National Forest System Lands and/or where protection is the responsibility of the US Forest Service. Knowing where wildland fire events have happened in the past is critical to land management efforts in the future.This data is utilized by fire & aviation staffs, land managers, land planners, and resource specialists on and around National Forest System Lands.*This data has been updated to match 2021 National GIS Data Dictionary Standards.Metadata and DownloadsThis record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: ISO-19139 metadata ArcGIS Hub Dataset ArcGIS GeoService CSV Shapefile GeoJSON KML For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

INVESTIGATIVE WILDFIRE DATA FOR TURKEY/ NASA

BE CAREFUL OF THE FILE NAMES.

IT CONTAINS THE DATA NEEDED TO RESEARCH LATEST FOREST FIRES IN TURKEY.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE DATE INTERVALS. THESE ARE 7-11 DAILY DATA OF LAST TIMES.

• fire _ nrt _ M _ C61 _ 212465 _ all _ countries.csv

This file is important for all countries becuase it contains fire data of last 11 days for all around the world

Content

Data on recent forest fires in Turkey, published with permission from NASA Portal. The data was created based on the hotspots and obtained from the satellite.

3 SEPARATE SATELLITE DATA:

• MODIS C6.1
• SUOMI VIIRS C2
• J1 VIIRS C1

GENERAL ATTRIBUTES

• Latitude Center of nominal 375 m fire pixel

• Longitude Center of nominal 375 m fire pixel

• Bright_ti4 (Brightness temperature I-4) VIIRS I-4: channel brightness temperature of the fire pixel measured in Kelvin.

• Scan (Along Scan pixel size) The algorithm produces approximately 375 m pixels at nadir. Scan and track reflect actual pixel size.

• Track (Along Track pixel size) The algorithm produces approximately 375 m pixels at nadir. Scan and track reflect actual pixel size.

• Acq_Date (Acquisition Date) Date of VIIRS acquisition.

• Acq_Time (Acquisition Time) Time of acquisition/overpass of the satellite (in UTC).

• Satellite N Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP)

• Confidence This value is based on a collection of intermediate algorithm quantities used in the detection process. It is intended to help users gauge the quality of individual hotspot/fire pixels. Confidence values are set to low, nominal and high. Low confidence daytime fire pixels are typically associated with areas of sun glint and lower relative temperature anomaly (15K) temperature anomaly in either day or nighttime data. High confidence fire pixels are associated with day or nighttime saturated pixels.

Please note:

• Low confidence nighttime pixels occur only over the geographic area extending from 11° E to 110° W and 7° N to 55° S. This area describes the region of influence of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly which can cause spurious brightness temperatures in the mid-infrared channel I4 leading to potential false positive alarms. These have been removed from the NRT data distributed by FIRMS.

• Version Version identifies the collection (e.g. VIIRS Collection 1) and source of data processing: Near Real-Time (NRT suffix added to collection) or Standard Processing (collection only).

"1.0NRT" - Collection 1 NRT processing.

"1.0" - Collection 1 Standard processing.

• Bright_ti5 (Brightness temperature I-5) I-5 Channel brightness temperature of the fire pixel measured in Kelvin.

• FRP (Fire Radiative Power) FRP depicts the pixel-integrated fire radiative power in MW (megawatts). Given the unique spatial and spectral resolution of the data, the VIIRS 375 m fire detection algorithm was customized and tuned in order to optimize its response over small fires while balancing the occurrence of false alarms. Frequent saturation of the mid-infrared I4 channel (3.55-3.93 µm) driving the detection of active fires requires additional tests and procedures to avoid pixel classification errors. As a result, sub-pixel fire characterization (e.g., fire radiative power [FRP] retrieval) is only viable across small and/or low-intensity fires. Systematic FRP retrievals are based on a hybrid approach combining 375 and 750 m data. In fact, starting in 2015 the algorithm incorporated additional VIIRS channel M13 (3.973-4.128 µm) 750 m data in both aggregated and unaggregated format.

Satellite measurements of fire radiative power (FRP) are increasingly used to estimate the contribution of biomass burning to local and global carbon budgets. Without an associated uncertainty, however, FRP-based biomass burning estimates cannot be confidently compared across space and time, or against estimates derived from alternative methodologies. Differences in the per-pixel FRP measured near-simultaneously in consecutive MODIS scans are approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation (ση) of 26.6%. Simulations demonstrate that this uncertainty decreases to less than ~5% (at ±1 ση) for aggregations larger than ~50 MODIS active fire pixels. Although FRP uncertainties limit the confidence in flux estimates on a per-pixel basis, the sensitivity of biomass burning estimates to FRP uncertainties can be mitigated by conducting inventories at coarser spatiotemporal resolutions.

http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/770/1/SEVIRI_FRP_documentdesc.pdf

• Type (Inferred hot spot type) 0 = presumed vegetation fire

1 = active volcano

2 = other static land source

3 = offshore detection (includes all detections over water)

• DayNight (Day or Night)

D= Daytime fire

N= Nighttime fire

This dataset is used to track wildfire information, assess wildfire risks, and to plan wildfire prevention activities.

It includes information about wildfires that have occurred on lands protected by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, 2008 to present.This dataset is used to track wildfire information, assess wildfire risks, and to plan wildfire prevention activities.

This layer presents the best-known point and perimeter locations of wildfire occurrences within the United States over the past 7 days. Points mark a location within the wildfire area and provide current information about that wildfire. Perimeters are the line surrounding land that has been impacted by a wildfire.Consumption Best Practices:

As a service that is subject to very high usage, ensure peak performance and accessibility of your maps and apps by avoiding the use of non-cacheable relative Date/Time field filters. To accommodate filtering events by Date/Time, we suggest using the included "Age" fields that maintain the number of days or hours since a record was created or last modified, compared to the last service update. These queries fully support the ability to cache a response, allowing common query results to be efficiently provided to users in a high demand service environment. When ingesting this service in your applications, avoid using POST requests whenever possible. These requests can compromise performance and scalability during periods of high usage because they too are not cacheable.Source:  Wildfire points are sourced from Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) and perimeters from National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Current Incidents: This layer provides a near real-time view of the data being shared through the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) service. IRWIN provides data exchange capabilities between participating wildfire systems, including federal, state and local agencies. Data is synchronized across participating organizations to make sure the most current information is available. The display of the points are based on the NWCG Fire Size Classification applied to the daily acres attribute.Current Perimeters: This layer displays fire perimeters posted to the National Incident Feature Service. It is updated from operational data and may not reflect current conditions on the ground. For a better understanding of the workflows involved in mapping and sharing fire perimeter data, see the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Standards for Geospatial Operations.Update Frequency:  Every 15 minutes using the Aggregated Live Feed Methodology based on the following filters:Events modified in the last 7 daysEvents that are not given a Fire Out DateIncident Type Kind: FiresIncident Type Category: Prescribed Fire, Wildfire, and Incident Complex

Area Covered: United StatesWhat can I do with this layer? The data includes basic wildfire information, such as location, size, environmental conditions, and resource summaries. Features can be filtered by incident name, size, or date keeping in mind that not all perimeters are fully attributed.Attribute InformationThis is a list of attributes that benefit from additional explanation. Not all attributes are listed.Incident Type Category: This is a breakdown of events into more specific categories.Wildfire (WF) -A wildland fire originating from an unplanned ignition, such as lightning, volcanos, unauthorized and accidental human caused fires, and prescribed fires that are declared wildfires.Prescribed Fire (RX) - A wildland fire originating from a planned ignition in accordance with applicable laws, policies, and regulations to meet specific objectives.Incident Complex (CX) - An incident complex is two or more individual incidents in the same general proximity that are managed together under one Incident Management Team. This allows resources to be used across the complex rather than on individual incidents uniting operational activities.IrwinID: Unique identifier assigned to each incident record in both point and perimeter layers.

Acres: these typically refer to the number of acres within the current perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.Discovery: An estimate of acres burning upon the discovery of the fire.Calculated or GIS:  A measure of acres calculated (i.e., infrared) from a geospatial perimeter of a fire.Daily: A measure of acres reported for a fire.Final: The measure of acres within the final perimeter of a fire. More specifically, the number of acres within the final fire perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.

Dates: the various systems contribute date information differently so not all fields will be populated for every fire.FireDiscovery: The date and time a fire was reported as discovered or confirmed to exist. May also be the start date for reporting purposes.

Containment: The date and time a wildfire was declared contained. Control: The date and time a wildfire was declared under control.ICS209Report: The date and time of the latest approved ICS-209 report.Current: The date and time a perimeter is last known to be updated.FireOut: The date and time when a fire is declared out.ModifiedOnAge: (Integer) Computed days since event last modified.DiscoveryAge: (Integer) Computed days since event's fire discovery date.CurrentDateAge: (Integer) Computed days since perimeter last modified.CreateDateAge: (Integer) Computed days since perimeter entry created.

GACC: A code that identifies one of the wildland fire geographic area coordination centers. A geographic area coordination center is a facility that is used for the coordination of agency or jurisdictional resources in support of one or more incidents within a geographic coordination area.Fire Mgmt Complexity: The highest management level utilized to manage a wildland fire event.Incident Management Organization: The incident management organization for the incident, which may be a Type 1, 2, or 3 Incident Management Team (IMT), a Unified Command, a Unified Command with an IMT, National Incident Management Organization (NIMO), etc. This field is null if no team is assigned.Unique Fire Identifier: Unique identifier assigned to each wildland fire. yyyy = calendar year, SSUUUU = Point Of Origin (POO) protecting unit identifier (5 or 6 characters), xxxxxx = local incident identifier (6 to 10 characters)RevisionsJan 4, 2021: Added Integer fields 'Days Since...' to Current_Incidents point layer and Current_Perimeters polygon layer. These fields are computed when the data is updated, reflecting the current number of days since each record was last updated. This will aid in making 'age' related, cache friendly queries.Mar 12, 2021: Added second set of 'Age' fields for Event and Perimeter record creation, reflecting age in Days since service data update.Apr 21, 2021: Current_Perimeters polygon layer is now being populated by NIFC's newest data source. A new field was added, 'IncidentTypeCategory' to better distinguish Incident types for Perimeters and now includes type 'CX' or Complex Fires. Five fields were not transferrable, and as a result 'Comments', 'Label', 'ComplexName', 'ComplexID', and 'IMTName' fields will be Null moving forward.Apr 26, 2021: Updated Incident Layer Symbology to better clarify events, reduce download size and overhead of symbols. Updated Perimeter Layer Symbology to better distingish between Wildfires and Prescribed Fires.May 5, 2021: Slight modification to Arcade logic for Symbology, refining Age comparison to Zero for fires in past 24-hours.Aug 16, 2021: Enabled Time Series capability on Layers (off by default) using 'Fire Discovery Date' for Incidents and 'Creation Date' for Perimeters.This layer is provided for informational purposes and is not monitored 24/7 for accuracy and currency.If you would like to be alerted to potential issues or simply see when this Service will update next, please visit our Live Feed Status Page!

The Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group provides authoritative geospatial data products under the interagency Wildland Fire Data Program. Hosted in the National Interagency Fire Center ArcGIS Online Organization (The NIFC Org), WFIGS provides both internal and public facing data, accessible in a variety of formats.This service includes perimeters for wildland fire incidents that meet the following criteria:Categorized in the IRWIN (Integrated Reporting of Wildland Fire Information) integration service as a Wildfire (WF) or Prescribed Fire (RX)Has not been declared contained, controlled, nor outHas not had fire report records completed (certified)Is Valid and not "quarantined" in IRWIN due to potential conflicts with other recordsAttribution of the source polygon is set to a Feature Access of Public, a Feature Status of Approved, and an Is Visible setting of YesPerimeters are not available for every incident. For a complete set of features that meet the same IRWIN criteria, see the Current Wildland Fire Locations service."Fall-off" rules are used to ensure that stale records are not retained. Records are removed from this service under the following conditions:If the fire size is less than 10 acres (Size Class A or B) and fire information has not been updated in more than 3 daysFire size is between 10 and 100 acres (Size Class C) and fire information hasn't been updated in more than 8 daysFire size is larger than 100 acres (Size Class D-L) but fire information hasn't been updated in more than 14 days.Fires from previous calendar years are excluded.Fire size used in the fall off rules is from the IRWIN IncidentSize field.Fires that are no longer in the Current Wildland Fire Perimeter service will be displayed in the Wildland Fire Perimeters Year to Date and/or the 'Full History' service. Criteria were determined by an NWCG Geospatial Subcommittee task group. Data are refreshed every 5 minutes. Changes in the perimeter source may take up to 15 minutes to display.Perimeters are pulled from multiple sources with rules in place to ensure the most current or most authoritative shape is used.Fall-off rules are enforced hourly.Attributes and their definitions can be found below. More detail about the NWCG Wildland Fire Event Polygon standard can be found here.Attributes:poly_SourceOIDThe OBJECTID value of the source record in the source dataset providing the polygon.poly_IncidentNameThe incident name as stored in the polygon source record.poly_MapMethodThe mapping method with which the polygon was derived.poly_GISAcresThe acreage of the polygon as stored in the polygon source record.poly_CreateDateSystem generated date for the date time the source polygon record was created (stored in UTC).poly_DateCurrentSystem generated date for the date time the source polygon record was last edited (stored in UTC).poly_PolygonDateTimeRepresents the date time that the polygon data was captured.poly_IRWINIDIRWIN ID stored in the polygon record.poly_FORIDFORID stored in the polygon record.poly_Acres_AutoCalcSystem calculated acreage of the polygon (geodesic WGS84 acres).poly_SourceGlobalIDThe GlobalID value of the source record in the source dataset providing the polygon.poly_SourceThe source dataset providing the polygon.attr_SourceOIDThe OBJECTID value of the source record in the source dataset providing the attribution.attr_ABCDMiscA FireCode used by USDA FS to track and compile cost information for emergency initial attack fire suppression expenditures. for A, B, C & D size class fires on FS lands.attr_ADSPermissionStateIndicates the permission hierarchy that is currently being applied when a system utilizes the UpdateIncident operation.attr_ContainmentDateTimeThe date and time a wildfire was declared contained. attr_ControlDateTimeThe date and time a wildfire was declared under control.attr_CreatedBySystemArcGIS Server Username of system that created the IRWIN Incident record.attr_IncidentSizeReported for a fire. The minimum size is 0.1.attr_DiscoveryAcresAn estimate of acres burning upon the discovery of the fire. More specifically when the fire is first reported by the first person that calls in the fire. The estimate should include number of acres within the current perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.attr_DispatchCenterIDA unique identifier for a dispatch center responsible for supporting the incident.attr_EstimatedCostToDateThe total estimated cost of the incident to date.attr_FinalAcresReported final acreage of incident.attr_FFReportApprovedByTitleThe title of the person that approved the final fire report for the incident.attr_FFReportApprovedByUnitNWCG Unit ID associated with the individual who approved the final report for the incident.attr_FFReportApprovedDateThe date that the final fire report was approved for the incident.attr_FireBehaviorGeneralA general category describing the manner in which the fire is currently reacting to the influences of fuel, weather, and topography. attr_FireBehaviorGeneral1A more specific category further describing the general fire behavior (manner in which the fire is currently reacting to the influences of fuel, weather, and topography). attr_FireBehaviorGeneral2A more specific category further describing the general fire behavior (manner in which the fire is currently reacting to the influences of fuel, weather, and topography). attr_FireBehaviorGeneral3A more specific category further describing the general fire behavior (manner in which the fire is currently reacting to the influences of fuel, weather, and topography). attr_FireCauseBroad classification of the reason the fire occurred identified as human, natural or unknown. attr_FireCauseGeneralAgency or circumstance which started a fire or set the stage for its occurrence; source of a fire's ignition. For statistical purposes, fire causes are further broken into specific causes. attr_FireCauseSpecificA further categorization of each General Fire Cause to indicate more specifically the agency or circumstance which started a fire or set the stage for its occurrence; source of a fire's ignition. attr_FireCodeA code used within the interagency wildland fire community to track and compile cost information for emergency fire suppression expenditures for the incident. attr_FireDepartmentIDThe U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has created a national database of Fire Departments. Most Fire Departments do not have an NWCG Unit ID and so it is the intent of the IRWIN team to create a new field that includes this data element to assist the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) with data collection.attr_FireDiscoveryDateTimeThe date and time a fire was reported as discovered or confirmed to exist. May also be the start date for reporting purposes.attr_FireMgmtComplexityThe highest management level utilized to manage a wildland fire event. attr_FireOutDateTimeThe date and time when a fire is declared out. attr_FireStrategyConfinePercentIndicates the percentage of the incident area where the fire suppression strategy of "Confine" is being implemented.attr_FireStrategyFullSuppPrcntIndicates the percentage of the incident area where the fire suppression strategy of "Full Suppression" is being implemented.attr_FireStrategyMonitorPercentIndicates the percentage of the incident area where the fire suppression strategy of "Monitor" is being implemented.attr_FireStrategyPointZonePrcntIndicates the percentage of the incident area where the fire suppression strategy of "Point Zone Protection" is being implemented.attr_FSJobCodeA code use to indicate the Forest Service job accounting code for the incident. This is specific to the Forest Service. Usually displayed as 2 char prefix on FireCode.attr_FSOverrideCodeA code used to indicate the Forest Service override code for the incident. This is specific to the Forest Service. Usually displayed as a 4 char suffix on FireCode. For example, if the FS is assisting DOI, an override of 1502 will be used.attr_GACCA code that identifies one of the wildland fire geographic area coordination center at the point of origin for the incident.A geographic area coordination center is a facility that is used for the coordination of agency or jurisdictional resources in support of one or more incidents within a geographic coordination area.attr_ICS209ReportDateTimeThe date and time of the latest approved ICS-209 report.attr_ICS209RptForTimePeriodFromThe date and time of the beginning of the time period for the current ICS-209 submission.attr_ICS209RptForTimePeriodToThe date and time of the end of the time period for the current ICS-209 submission. attr_ICS209ReportStatusThe version of the ICS-209 report (initial, update, or final). There should never be more than one initial report, but there can be numerous updates, and even multiple finals (as determined by business rules).attr_IncidentManagementOrgThe incident management organization for the incident, which may be a Type 1, 2, or 3 Incident Management Team (IMT), a Unified Command, a Unified Command with an IMT, National Incident Management Organization (NIMO), etc. This field is null if no team is assigned.attr_IncidentNameThe name assigned to an incident.attr_IncidentShortDescriptionGeneral descriptive location of the incident such as the number of miles from an identifiable town. attr_IncidentTypeCategoryThe Event Category is a sub-group of the Event Kind code and description. The Event Category further breaks down the Event Kind into more specific event categories.attr_IncidentTypeKindA general, high-level code and description of the types of incidents and planned events to which the interagency wildland fire community responds.attr_InitialLatitudeThe latitude location of the initial reported point of origin specified in decimal degrees.attr_InitialLongitudeThe longitude location of the initial reported point of origin specified in decimal degrees.attr_InitialResponseAcresAn estimate of

This filtered version of the layer represents all IRWIN-tracked fires that originated in California or are are less than 100% contained.This layer presents the best-known point and perimeter locations of wildfire occurrences within the United States over the past 7 days. Points mark a location within the wildfire area and provide current information about that wildfire. Perimeters are the line surrounding land that has been impacted by a wildfire.Consumption Best Practices:As a service that is subject to very high usage, ensure peak performance and accessibility of your maps and apps by avoiding the use of non-cacheable relative Date/Time field filters. To accommodate filtering events by Date/Time, we suggest using the included "Age" fields that maintain the number of days or hours since a record was created or last modified, compared to the last service update. These queries fully support the ability to cache a response, allowing common query results to be efficiently provided to users in a high demand service environment.When ingesting this service in your applications, avoid using POST requests whenever possible. These requests can compromise performance and scalability during periods of high usage because they too are not cacheable.Source:  Wildfire points are sourced from Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) and perimeters from National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Current Incidents: This layer provides a near real-time view of the data being shared through the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) service. IRWIN provides data exchange capabilities between participating wildfire systems, including federal, state and local agencies. Data is synchronized across participating organizations to make sure the most current information is available. The display of the points are based on the NWCG Fire Size Classification applied to the daily acres attribute.Current Perimeters: This layer displays fire perimeters posted to the National Incident Feature Service. It is updated from operational data and may not reflect current conditions on the ground. For a better understanding of the workflows involved in mapping and sharing fire perimeter data, see the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Standards for Geospatial Operations.Update Frequency:  Every 15 minutes using the Aggregated Live Feed Methodology based on the following filters:Events modified in the last 7 daysEvents that are not given a Fire Out DateIncident Type Kind: FiresIncident Type Category: Prescribed Fire, Wildfire, and Incident ComplexArea Covered: United StatesWhat can I do with this layer? The data includes basic wildfire information, such as location, size, environmental conditions, and resource summaries. Features can be filtered by incident name, size, or date keeping in mind that not all perimeters are fully attributed.Attribute InformationThis is a list of attributes that benefit from additional explanation. Not all attributes are listed.Incident Type Category: This is a breakdown of events into more specific categories.Wildfire (WF) -A wildland fire originating from an unplanned ignition, such as lightning, volcanos, unauthorized and accidental human caused fires, and prescribed fires that are declared wildfires.Prescribed Fire (RX) - A wildland fire originating from a planned ignition in accordance with applicable laws, policies, and regulations to meet specific objectives.Incident Complex (CX) - An incident complex is two or more individual incidents in the same general proximity that are managed together under one Incident Management Team. This allows resources to be used across the complex rather than on individual incidents uniting operational activities.IrwinID: Unique identifier assigned to each incident record in both point and perimeter layers.Acres: these typically refer to the number of acres within the current perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.Discovery: An estimate of acres burning upon the discovery of the fire.Calculated or GIS:  A measure of acres calculated (i.e., infrared) from a geospatial perimeter of a fire.Daily: A measure of acres reported for a fire.Final: The measure of acres within the final perimeter of a fire. More specifically, the number of acres within the final fire perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.Dates: the various systems contribute date information differently so not all fields will be populated for every fire.FireDiscovery: The date and time a fire was reported as discovered or confirmed to exist. May also be the start date for reporting purposes. Containment: The date and time a wildfire was declared contained. Control: The date and time a wildfire was declared under control.ICS209Report: The date and time of the latest approved ICS-209 report.Current: The date and time a perimeter is last known to be updated.FireOut: The date and time when a fire is declared out.ModifiedOnAge: (Integer) Computed days since event last modified.DiscoveryAge: (Integer) Computed days since event's fire discovery date.CurrentDateAge: (Integer) Computed days since perimeter last modified.CreateDateAge: (Integer) Computed days since perimeter entry created.GACC: A code that identifies one of the wildland fire geographic area coordination centers. A geographic area coordination center is a facility that is used for the coordination of agency or jurisdictional resources in support of one or more incidents within a geographic coordination area.Fire Mgmt Complexity: The highest management level utilized to manage a wildland fire event.Incident Management Organization: The incident management organization for the incident, which may be a Type 1, 2, or 3 Incident Management Team (IMT), a Unified Command, a Unified Command with an IMT, National Incident Management Organization (NIMO), etc. This field is null if no team is assigned.Unique Fire Identifier: Unique identifier assigned to each wildland fire. yyyy = calendar year, SSUUUU = Point Of Origin (POO) protecting unit identifier (5 or 6 characters), xxxxxx = local incident identifier (6 to 10 characters)RevisionsJan 4, 2021: Added Integer fields 'Days Since...' to Current_Incidents point layer and Current_Perimeters polygon layer. These fields are computed when the data is updated, reflecting the current number of days since each record was last updated. This will aid in making 'age' related, cache friendly queries.Mar 12, 2021: Added second set of 'Age' fields for Event and Perimeter record creation, reflecting age in Days since service data update.Apr 21, 2021: Current_Perimeters polygon layer is now being populated by NIFC's newest data source. A new field was added, 'IncidentTypeCategory' to better distinguish Incident types for Perimeters and now includes type 'CX' or Complex Fires. Five fields were not transferrable, and as a result 'Comments', 'Label', 'ComplexName', 'ComplexID', and 'IMTName' fields will be Null moving forward.Apr 26, 2021: Updated Incident Layer Symbology to better clarify events, reduce download size and overhead of symbols. Updated Perimeter Layer Symbology to better distingish between Wildfires and Prescribed Fires.May 5, 2021: Slight modification to Arcade logic for Symbology, refining Age comparison to Zero for fires in past 24-hours.Aug 16, 2021: Enabled Time Series capability on Layers (off by default) using 'Fire Discovery Date' for Incidents and 'Creation Date' for Perimeters.This layer is provided for informational purposes and is not monitored 24/7 for accuracy and currency.If you would like to be alerted to potential issues or simply see when this Service will update next, please visit our Live Feed Status Page!

Historic Fire Perimeter Dataset Feedback (arcgis.com)

Current criteria for data collection are as follows:

CAL FIRE (including contract counties) submit perimeters ≥10 acres in timber, ≥50 acres in brush, or ≥300 acres in grass, and/or ≥3 impacted residential or commercial structures, and/or caused ≥1 fatality.

All cooperating agencies submit perimeters ≥10 acres.

Version update:

Firep24_1 was released in April 2025. Five hundred forty-eight fires from the 2024 fire season were added to the database (2 from BIA, 56 from BLM, 197 from CAL FIRE, 193 from Contract Counties, 27 from LRA, 8 from NPS, 55 from USFS and 8 from USFW). Six perimeters were added from the 2025 fire season (as a special case due to an unusual January fire siege). Five duplicate fires were removed, and the 2023 Sage was replaced with a more accurate perimeter. There were 900 perimeters that received updated attribution (705 removed “FIRE” from the end of Fire Name field and 148 replaced Complex IRWIN ID with Complex local incident number for COMPLEX_ID field). The following fires were identified as meeting our collection criteria but are not included in this version and will hopefully be added in a future update: Addie (2024-CACND-002119), Alpaugh (2024-CACND-001715), South (2024-CATIA-001375). One perimeter is missing containment date that will be updated in the next release.

Cross checking CALFIRS reporting for new CAL FIRE submissions to ensure accuracy with cause class was added to the compilation process. The cause class domain description for “Powerline” was updated to “Electrical Power” to be more inclusive of cause reports.

Includes separate layers filtered by criteria as follows:

California Fire Perimeters (All): Unfiltered. The entire collection of wildfire perimeters in the database. It is scale dependent and starts displaying at the country level scale.

Recent Large Fire Perimeters (≥5000 acres): Filtered for wildfires greater or equal to 5,000 acres for the last 5 years of fires (2020-January 2025), symbolized with color by year and is scale dependent and starts displaying at the country level scale. Year-only labels for recent large fires.

California Fire Perimeters (1950+): Filtered for wildfires that started in 1950-January 2025. Symbolized by decade, and display starting at country level scale.

Detailed metadata is included in the following documents:

Wildland Fire Perimeters (Firep24_1) Metadata

See more information on our Living Atlas data release here:

CAL FIRE Historical Fire Perimeters Available in ArcGIS Living Atlas

For any questions, please contact the data steward:

Kim Wallin, GIS Specialist

CAL FIRE, Fire & Resource Assessment Program (FRAP)

kimberly.wallin@fire.ca.gov

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This is a copy of another layer - see original source: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e02b85c0ea784ce7bd8add7ae3d293d0OverviewThe national fire history perimeter data layer of conglomerated Agency Authoratative perimeters was developed in support of the WFDSS application and wildfire decision support for the 2021 fire season. The layer encompasses the final fire perimeter datasets of the USDA Forest Service, US Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center, CalFire, and WFIGS History. Perimeters are included thru the 2021 fire season. Requirements for fire perimeter inclusion, such as minimum acreage requirements, are set by the contributing agencies. WFIGS, NPS and CALFIRE data now include Prescribed Burns. Data InputSeveral data sources were used in the development of this layer:Alaska fire history USDA FS Regional Fire History Data BLM Fire Planning and Fuels National Park Service - Includes Prescribed Burns Fish and Wildlife ServiceBureau of Indian AffairsCalFire FRAS - Includes Prescribed BurnsWFIGS - BLM & BIA and other S&LData LimitationsFire perimeter data are often collected at the local level, and fire management agencies have differing guidelines for submitting fire perimeter data. Often data are collected by agencies only once annually. If you do not see your fire perimeters in this layer, they were not present in the sources used to create the layer at the time the data were submitted. A companion service for perimeters entered into the WFDSS application is also available, if a perimeter is found in the WFDSS service that is missing in this Agency Authoratative service or a perimeter is missing in both services, please contact the appropriate agency Fire GIS Contact listed in the table below.AttributesThis dataset implements the NWCG Wildland Fire Perimeters (polygon) data standard.https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/stds/WildlandFirePerimeters_definition.pdfIRWINID - Primary key for linking to the IRWIN Incident dataset. The origin of this GUID is the wildland fire locations point data layer. (This unique identifier may NOT replace the GeometryID core attribute)INCIDENT - The name assigned to an incident; assigned by responsible land management unit. (IRWIN required). Officially recorded name.FIRE_YEAR (Alias) - Calendar year in which the fire started. Example: 2013. Value is of type integer (FIRE_YEAR_INT).AGENCY - Agency assigned for this fire - should be based on jurisdiction at origin.SOURCE - System/agency source of record from which the perimeter came.DATE_CUR - The last edit, update, or other valid date of this GIS Record. Example: mm/dd/yyyy.MAP_METHOD - Controlled vocabulary to define how the geospatial feature was derived. Map method may help define data quality.GPS-Driven; GPS-Flight; GPS-Walked; GPS-Walked/Driven; GPS-Unknown Travel Method; Hand Sketch; Digitized-Image; Digitized-Topo; Digitized-Other; Image Interpretation; Infrared Image; Modeled; Mixed Methods; Remote Sensing Derived; Survey/GCDB/Cadastral; Vector; OtherGIS_ACRES - GIS calculated acres within the fire perimeter. Not adjusted for unburned areas within the fire perimeter. Total should include 1 decimal place. (ArcGIS: Precision=10; Scale=1). Example: 23.9UNQE_FIRE_ - Unique fire identifier is the Year-Unit Identifier-Local Incident Identifier (yyyy-SSXXX-xxxxxx). SS = State Code or International Code, XXX or XXXX = A code assigned to an organizational unit, xxxxx = Alphanumeric with hyphens or periods. The unit identifier portion corresponds to the POINT OF ORIGIN RESPONSIBLE AGENCY UNIT IDENTIFIER (POOResonsibleUnit) from the responsible unit’s corresponding fire report. Example: 2013-CORMP-000001LOCAL_NUM - Local incident identifier (dispatch number). A number or code that uniquely identifies an incident for a particular local fire management organization within a particular calendar year. Field is string to allow for leading zeros when the local incident identifier is less than 6 characters. (IRWIN required). Example: 123456.UNIT_ID - NWCG Unit Identifier of landowner/jurisdictional agency unit at the point of origin of a fire. (NFIRS ID should be used only when no NWCG Unit Identifier exists). Example: CORMPCOMMENTS - Additional information describing the feature. Free Text.FEATURE_CA - Type of wildland fire polygon: Wildfire (represents final fire perimeter or last daily fire perimeter available) or Prescribed Fire or UnknownGEO_ID - Primary key for linking geospatial objects with other database systems. Required for every feature. This field may be renamed for each standard to fit the feature. Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).Cross-Walk from sources (GeoID) and other processing notesAK: GEOID = OBJECT ID of provided file geodatabase (4580 Records thru 2021), other federal sources for AK data removed. CA: GEOID = OBJECT ID of downloaded file geodatabase (12776 Records, federal fires removed, includes RX)FWS: GEOID = OBJECTID of service download combined history 2005-2021 (2052 Records). Handful of WFIGS (11) fires added that were not in FWS record.BIA: GEOID = "FireID" 2017/2018 data (416 records) provided or WFDSS PID (415 records). An additional 917 fires from WFIGS were added, GEOID=GLOBALID in source.NPS: GEOID = EVENT ID (IRWINID or FRM_ID from FOD), 29,943 records includes RX.BLM: GEOID = GUID from BLM FPER and GLOBALID from WFIGS. Date Current = best available modify_date, create_date, fire_cntrl_dt or fire_dscvr_dt to reduce the number of 9999 entries in FireYear. Source FPER (25,389 features), WFIGS (5357 features)USFS: GEOID=GLOBALID in source, 46,574 features. Also fixed Date Current to best available date from perimeterdatetime, revdate, discoverydatetime, dbsourcedate to reduce number of 1899 entries in FireYear.Relevant Websites and ReferencesAlaska Fire Service: https://afs.ak.blm.gov/CALFIRE: https://frap.fire.ca.gov/mapping/gis-dataBIA - data prior to 2017 from WFDSS, 2017-2018 Agency Provided, 2019 and after WFIGSBLM: https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/fire/BLM_Natl_FirePerimeter/MapServerNPS: New data set provided from NPS Fire & Aviation GIS. cross checked against WFIGS for any missing perimetersFWS -https://services.arcgis.com/QVENGdaPbd4LUkLV/arcgis/rest/services/USFWS_Wildfire_History_gdb/FeatureServerUSFS - https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_FireOccurrenceAndPerimeter_01/MapServerAgency Fire GIS ContactsRD&A Data ManagerVACANTSusan McClendonWFM RD&A GIS Specialist208-258-4244send emailJill KuenziUSFS-NIFC208.387.5283send email Joseph KafkaBIA-NIFC208.387.5572send emailCameron TongierUSFWS-NIFC208.387.5712send emailSkip EdelNPS-NIFC303.969.2947send emailJulie OsterkampBLM-NIFC208.258.0083send email Jennifer L. Jenkins Alaska Fire Service 907.356.5587 send emailLayers

This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2020. It is the fifth update of a publication originally generated to support the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations. The following core data elements were required for records to be included in this data publication: discovery date, final fire size, and a point location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) section (1-square mile grid). The data were transformed to conform, when possible, to the data standards of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), including an updated wildfire-cause standard (approved August 2020). Basic error-checking was performed and redundant records were identified and removed, to the degree possible. The resulting product, referred to as the Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD), includes 2.3 million geo-referenced wildfire records, representing a total of 180 million acres burned during the 29-year period. Identifiers necessary to link the point-based, final-fire-reporting information to published large-fire-perimeter and operational-situation-reporting datasets are included. View MetadataAdditional InformationThis record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: ISO-19139 metadata ArcGIS Hub Dataset ArcGIS GeoService OGC WMS CSV Shapefile GeoJSON KML https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_FireOccurrence6thEdition_01/MapServer/29 Research Data Archive Geodatabase Download (Coming Soon) Shapefile Download (Coming Soon) For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.