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

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...

Tags: Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Land Use Change, North America, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, burned area, controlled fires, count of times burned, environment, fire, fires, first year burned, geospatial datasets, most recent year burned, prescribed fire, wildfire, Fewer tags

Combined wildland fire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present (summary rasters)

First, we would like to thank the wildland fire advisory group. Their wisdom and guidance helped us build the dataset as it currently exists. Currently, there are multiple, freely available wildland fire datasets that identify wildfire and prescribed fire areas across the United States. However, these datasets are all limited in some way. Time periods, spatial extents, attributes, and maintenance for these datasets are highly variable, and none of the existing datasets provide a comprehensive picture of wildfires that have burned since the 1800s. Utilizing a series of both manual processes and ArcGIS Python (arcpy) scripts, we merged 40 of these disparate datasets into a single dataset that encompasses the known...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Fire, North America, Prescribed Burn, Prescribed Fire, Raster, All tags... United States, United States, Wildfire, Wildland Fire, burned area, environment, fire, fires, first year burned, geospatial datasets, most recent year burned, number of times burned, prescribed fire, raster, wildfire, Fewer tags

Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1878-2019

***This data set is superseded by Welty, J.L., and Jeffries, M.I., 2021, Combined wildland fire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZXGFY3.*** This dataset is comprised of four different zip files. Zip File 1: A combined wildfire polygon dataset ranging in years from 1878-2019 (142 years) that was created by merging and dissolving fire information from 12 different original wildfire datasets to create one of the most comprehensive wildfire datasets available. Attributes describing fires that were reported in the various source data, including fire name, fire code, ignition date, controlled date, containment date, and...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Land Use Change, North America, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, burned area, count of times burned, environment, fire, fires, first year burned, geospatial datasets, most recent year burned, wildfire, Fewer tags