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  1. U

    Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories,...

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    Updated Dec 8, 2021
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    Justin Welty; Michelle Jeffries (2021). Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZXGFY3
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 8, 2021
    Dataset provided by
    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
    Authors
    Justin Welty; Michelle Jeffries
    License

    U.S. Government Workshttps://www.usa.gov/government-works
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    1835 - 2020
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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 ...

  2. Number of wildland fires in the U.S. 1990-2024

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    Updated Feb 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of wildland fires in the U.S. 1990-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/203983/-number-of-wildland-fires-in-the-us/
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 24, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

  3. State of the Climate Monthly Overview - National Wildfires

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    • ncei.noaa.gov
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    Updated Sep 19, 2023
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    NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Point of Contact) (2023). State of the Climate Monthly Overview - National Wildfires [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/state-of-the-climate-monthly-overview-national-wildfires1
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    Sep 19, 2023
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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationhttp://www.noaa.gov/
    National Centers for Environmental Informationhttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/
    Description

    The State of the Climate is a collection of periodic summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale. The State of the Climate Monthly Overview-National Wildfires provides a summary of wildland fires in the U.S. and related weather and climate conditions. Statistical summaries such as the number of fires and acres burned are provided as are reports from the U.S. Drought Monitor and fire danger maps. Monthly reports for the summer "fire season" and annual summaries begin in July 2002. Depending on conditions, reporting was extended beyond the summer and fall seasons, and beginning in 2009 a summary was generated for each month. Following the July 2013 report, and until further notice, NCEI will no longer issue the Wildfire component of its Monthly Climate report. All previous Wildfire reports will be maintained online. Updated statistics will be updated on our Wildfire Societal Impacts webpage.

  4. Area burned by wildfires in the U.S. 1983-2024

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    Updated Jul 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Area burned by wildfires in the U.S. 1983-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/203990/area-of-acres-burnt-due-to-wildland-fires-in-the-us/
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

  5. Global wildfire exposure dataset

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    Updated Apr 25, 2025
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    Tong Pan; Tong Pan (2025). Global wildfire exposure dataset [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15278676
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    csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Apr 25, 2025
    Dataset provided by
    Zenodohttp://zenodo.org/
    Authors
    Tong Pan; Tong Pan
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    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.
      • ColumnDescriptionUnitsValid RangeData Type
        cpfire component label->=0int64
        durationfire durationdays>= 1uint16
        maxFRP_sumsum of maximum fire radiative powersMW*10>= 0float64
        areatotal burned areakm^2>= 0.86 (1 MODIS pixel)float64
        countrycountry of occurrence--string
        continentcontinent of occurrence--string
        dtime_minignition date (YYYY-MM-DD)->= 2002-01-01datetime64
        lat_meanmean location latitudedegrees[-180, 180]float64
        lon_meanmean location longitudedegrees[-90, 90]float64
        exposureprimary population exposure to wildfire persontime>=0int64
        5km_band_popsecondary population exposure to wildfirepersontime>=0int64
        yearyear of occurrence-[2002, 2020]int64
        monthmonth 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.
      • ColumnDescriptionUnitsValid RangeData Type
        exposurepopulation exposed to wildfirepersontime>=0int64
        yearyear of occurrence-[2002, 2020]int64
        countrycountry of occurrence--string
        continentcontinent of occurrence--string
        gdpNational Gross Domestic Product for the corresponding year million U.S. dollars>=0float64
        country_popnational population of the corresponding yearpersontime>=0int64
        fwiFire Weather Index->=0float32
        vpdVapor Pressure DeficitkPa[0, 10]float32
        ndviNormalized Difference Vegetation Index-[0, 1]float64
        dnbrDelta Normalized Burn Ratio-[-2, 2]float64
        iso3standardized country code for cross-dataset integration--string
        clusterresults from K-means clustering-[0, 2]int64
  6. Number of deaths caused by wildfires in the U.S. 1990-2023

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    Updated Feb 11, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Number of deaths caused by wildfires in the U.S. 1990-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422130/usa-number-of-deaths-due-to-wildfires/
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 11, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

  7. Global forest cover loss by wildfires 2001-2023

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    Statista, Global forest cover loss by wildfires 2001-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1401539/forest-loss-by-wildfires/
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    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Globally, ************ hectares of tree cover were lost to wildfires in 2023. During the same year, the total area of tree cover loss caused by fires in general (wildfires and other fire events like clearing for agriculture) amounted to ************ hectares.

  8. a

    Current Incidents

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    • gis-calema.opendata.arcgis.com
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    Updated May 14, 2020
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    CA Governor's Office of Emergency Services (2020). Current Incidents [Dataset]. https://arc-gis-hub-home-arcgishub.hub.arcgis.com/maps/CalEMA::current-incidents
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    May 14, 2020
    Dataset authored and provided by
    CA Governor's Office of Emergency Services
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    Description

    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!

  9. Land burned by forest fires in Portugal 2009-2024

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    Updated Dec 2, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Land burned by forest fires in Portugal 2009-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1265367/area-burned-by-wildfire-in-portugal/
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 2, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Portugal
    Description

    Portugal has been the European country most affected by wildfires over the past decade. Between 2009 and 2023, an average area of over 93,731 hectares was burned every year. Furthermore, 2017 saw the greatest area lost to wildfires in a single year, with the rapidly spreading wildfires from June 17 to 24 in Central Portugal among the most deadly in recent history – 66 people were confirmed to have been killed. As of December 2024, the size of wildfire-burnt area that year was around 143,313 hectares, a considerable increase from the previous year.

  10. Z

    Raster-based dataset for spatio-temporal analysis of forest fires in the...

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    Updated Oct 19, 2022
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    Paula Moraga (2022). Raster-based dataset for spatio-temporal analysis of forest fires in the Amazon rainforest from 2001 to 2020 [Dataset]. https://data.niaid.nih.gov/resources?id=zenodo_7215401
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    Oct 19, 2022
    Dataset provided by
    Paula Moraga
    Mateen Mahmood
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    Amazon Rainforest
    Description

    Forest fire incidents are becoming increasingly common around the world, posing a threat to the environment, economy, and social life. These wildfires are further expected to rise in their frequency and intensity, considering the global climate change and human activities. A variety of attributes must be studied in order to analyse relationships between the probable causes of fire and the characteristics of wildfire incidents, and inform decision-making. Such attributes are available or easily collectable in various regions around the world, but they are not readily available in the South American Amazon. The Amazon rainforest covers such a large area that acquiring a useful dataset necessitates extensive effort and computer intensive pre-processing. The associated study to this dataset investigates potential data sources for the Amazon, establishes a methodological baseline, and prepares a dataset of covariates thought to be contributing to the wildfire ignition process. The dataset is intended to be used for forest fire studies, specifically spatio-temporal and statistical analysis of wildfires. The study provides three sets of (i) raw data (acquired data with a global extent), (ii) pre-processed data (source data transformed to the same projection system and same file format), and (iii) working data (cropped to Amazon region extent with spatial resolution of 500 meters and monthly temporal resolution, to enable the scientific community to work with various possibilities of forest-fire analysis, and to further encourage research in study areas in the other parts of the world.

  11. U

    Climate, Wildfire, and Erosion Data, Western US

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    • search.dataone.org
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    Updated Jul 29, 2024
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    Joel Sankey (2024). Climate, Wildfire, and Erosion Data, Western US [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5066/F7BV7DS8
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    Jul 29, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
    Authors
    Joel Sankey
    License

    U.S. Government Workshttps://www.usa.gov/government-works
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    2001 - 2050
    Area covered
    Western United States, United States
    Description

    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.

  12. Area burned by wildfires in the U.S. 2024, by state

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    Updated Jul 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Area burned by wildfires in the U.S. 2024, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/217072/number-of-fires-and-acres-burned-due-to-us-wildfires/
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

  13. o

    Annual forest fire reporting data

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    Updated Feb 11, 2025
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    (2025). Annual forest fire reporting data [Dataset]. https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/annual-forest-fire-reporting-data
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    web(None)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Feb 11, 2025
    License

    https://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontariohttps://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario

    Time period covered
    Jun 7, 2021
    Area covered
    Ontario
    Description

    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
  14. USA Current Wildfires

    • atlas.eia.gov
    • colorado-river-portal.usgs.gov
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    Updated Aug 16, 2022
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    Esri (2022). USA Current Wildfires [Dataset]. https://atlas.eia.gov/maps/d957997ccee7408287a963600a77f61f
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 16, 2022
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Esrihttp://esri.com/
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    Description

    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!

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    USA Current Wildfires

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    Updated Jun 11, 2021
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    CA Governor's Office of Emergency Services (2021). USA Current Wildfires [Dataset]. https://wifire-data.sdsc.edu/dataset/usa-current-wildfires
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 11, 2021
    Dataset provided by
    CA Governor's Office of Emergency Services
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    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.


    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 days
    • Events that are not given a Fire Out Date
    • Incident Type Kind: Fires
    • Incident Type Category: Debris/Product Fire, Fire Rehabilitation, Incident/Event Support, Preparedness/Preposition, Prescribed Fire, Wildfire, Wildland Fire Use, Incident Complex, and Out of Area Response
    Area Covered: United States

    What 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.

    The USA Wildfires web map provides additional layers and information such as Red Flag warnings, wind speed/gust, and satellite thermal detections. This map can be used as a starting point for your own map.

    Attribute Information
    This 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.

    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.
    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

  16. Number of wildfires in South America 2024, by country

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    Updated Jul 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of wildfires in South America 2024, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043895/number-wildfires-south-america-country/
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    South America, Americas
    Description

    Throughout 2024, Brazil reported nearly 279,000 wildfire outbreaks, by far the highest figure in South America. Bolivia registered the second-largest number of wildfires in the region that year, at over 90,000. On the other hand, 276 wildfires were detected in Uruguay during the reported period, the lowest number amongst South American countries and territories. The lungs of the world Spanning nine different countries, the Amazon rainforest makes up approximately 40 percent of South America. Predominantly encompassed by Brazil, the government has made some efforts towards protecting what is left of the world's most abundant tropical rainforest. Over five million square kilometers of land area lie under a special regime designated as the Legal Amazon in Brazil. Nevertheless, wildfires in the region remain a cause for concern. In 2024, over 192,000 outbreaks were registered in the Legal Amazon, accounting for more than half of the country's occurrences that year. Brazil's blind ambition At the heart of the issue of wildfires is deforestation as a technique to expand land for farming and pastures. Along with the incremental rise in wildfires, the Amazon's deforestation rate has seen a continual increase for most of the decade. As Brazil climbs global markets to become the leading producer of soybean and beef, the country's agricultural ambitions have led to the lightening of environmental restrictions and the re-allocation of land for farming purposes. In turn, the area planted with crops in the Legal Amazon has nearly tripled since 2000.

  17. Number of wildfires in the U.S. 2024, by state

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    Updated Feb 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of wildfires in the U.S. 2024, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1269724/number-of-us-wildfires-by-state/
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 24, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    There were over 8,316 individual wildfires in California in 2024, making it by far the U.S. state seeing the highest number of wildfires that year. This resulted in nearly 1.08 million acres burned due to wildfires in the southern state. Texas ranked second, recording a total of 4,967 wildfires throughout 2024.

  18. National USFS Fire Perimeter (Feature Layer)

    • agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov
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    Updated Apr 22, 2025
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    U.S. Forest Service (2025). National USFS Fire Perimeter (Feature Layer) [Dataset]. https://agdatacommons.nal.usda.gov/articles/dataset/National_USFS_Fire_Perimeter_Feature_Layer_/25973398
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 22, 2025
    Dataset provided by
    U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Servicehttp://fs.fed.us/
    Authors
    U.S. Forest Service
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    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.

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    Combined wildfire dataset for the United States and certain territories,...

    • catalog.data.gov
    • data.usgs.gov
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    Updated Jul 6, 2024
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2024). Combined wildfire dataset for the United States and certain territories, 1870-2015 [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/combined-wildfire-dataset-for-the-united-states-and-certain-territories-1870-2015
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 6, 2024
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    U.S. Geological Survey
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The increase in wildfires, particularly in the western U.S., represents one of the greatest threats to multiple native ecosystems. Despite this threat, there is currently no central repository to store both past and current wildfire perimeter data. Currently, wildfire boundaries can only be found in disparate local or national datasets. These datasets are generally restricted to specific locations, fire sizes, or time periods. Our objective was to create a comprehensive national wildfire perimeter dataset by combining all freely available wildfire datasets that we could download. We combined and dissolved individual wildfire polygons from multiple datasets if they were in the same year and overlapped each other or were within 1km of the fire boundary. This combined dataset includes spatial summary statistics such as number of times burned, earliest fire of record, and most recent fire of record.

  20. California Fire Perimeters (all)

    • data.cnra.ca.gov
    • data.ca.gov
    Updated May 9, 2025
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    California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (2025). California Fire Perimeters (all) [Dataset]. https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/california-fire-perimeters-all
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    Dataset updated
    May 9, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    California Department of Forestry and Fire Protectionhttp://calfire.ca.gov/
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    California
    Description

    The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) annually maintains and distributes an historical wildland fire perimeter dataset from across public and private lands in California. The GIS data is developed with the cooperation of the United States Forest Service Region 5, the Bureau of Land Management, California State Parks, National Park Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and is released in the spring with added data from the previous calendar year. Although the dataset represents the most complete digital record of fire perimeters in California, it is still incomplete, and users should be cautious when drawing conclusions based on the data.

    This data should be used carefully for statistical analysis and reporting due to missing perimeters (see Use Limitation in metadata). Some fires are missing because historical records were lost or damaged, were too small for the minimum cutoffs, had inadequate documentation or have not yet been incorporated into the database. Other errors with the fire perimeter database include duplicate fires and over-generalization. Additionally, over-generalization, particularly with large old fires, may show unburned "islands" within the final perimeter as burned. Users of the fire perimeter database must exercise caution in application of the data. Careful use of the fire perimeter database will prevent users from drawing inaccurate or erroneous conclusions from the data. This data is updated annually in the spring with fire perimeters from the previous fire season. This dataset may differ in California compared to that available from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) due to different requirements between the two datasets. The data covers fires back to 1878. As of May 2025, it represents fire24_1.


    Please help improve this dataset by filling out this survey with feedback:

    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


    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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Justin Welty; Michelle Jeffries (2021). Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZXGFY3

Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present

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Dataset updated
Dec 8, 2021
Dataset provided by
United States Geological Surveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
Authors
Justin Welty; Michelle Jeffries
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U.S. Government Workshttps://www.usa.gov/government-works
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Time period covered
1835 - 2020
Area covered
United States
Description

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 ...

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