Wildfires
Annual and rolling wildfire aggregates by admin2 region for event counts, burned area, and duration comparisons.
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Wildfires
Annual and rolling wildfire aggregates by admin2 region for event counts, burned area, and duration comparisons.
Source agencies
- NASA / University of Maryland (Global Fire Atlas) - Public Domain (CC0 / U.S. Government) (Global large-fire event stream used for worldwide annual and rolling-window wildfire aggregates.)
- National Interagency Fire Center / IRWIN - Public Domain (U.S. Government) (USA wildfire event stream used when admin2 aggregate coverage is available for county rollups.)
- Natural Resources Canada - Canadian National Fire Database - Open Government Licence - Canada (Canada wildfire event stream used when admin2 aggregate coverage is available for province/county-equivalent rollups.)
- Natural Resources Canada - Canadian National Fire Database - Open Government Licence - Canada (Primary upstream. NFDB_point (all fires) and NFDB_poly (large fire perimeters >= 200 ha). Covers Canada 1930-present.)
- National Interagency Fire Center / IRWIN - Public Domain (U.S. Government) (Primary upstream. Wildfire incident reports from NIFC and the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-fire Information (IRWIN) system. Covers USA large fires (500+ acres) since 1984.)
- Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USFS / USGS) - Public Domain (U.S. Government) (Burn severity perimeter data used in event_areas.parquet enrichment alongside GFA area data.)
- NASA / University of Maryland (Global Fire Atlas) - Public Domain (CC0 / U.S. Government) (Sole upstream. MODIS Collection 6.1 burned area product. Annual shapefiles (ignitions + perimeters) downloaded from Zenodo. Covers 2002-2024.)
Data sets
| Data set | Source | License | Time | Levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfire Aggregates by Admin2 Region wildfire_aggregates | NASA / University of Maryland (Global Fire Atlas) | Mixed public wildfire upstreams (see upstream_sources) | 2001 - 2024 | 2 |
| Annual and rolling-window wildfire aggregate statistics by admin2 region, derived from the published wildfire event sources for cross-region comparison, ranking, and joins with other county-scale risk layers. | ||||
| Canadian National Fire Database can_wildfires | Natural Resources Canada - Canadian National Fire Database | Open Government Licence - Canada | 1930 - 2024 | - |
| Historical wildfire records for Canada including fire perimeters, burned area, cause, and fire behavior data from provincial and territorial agencies. | ||||
| NIFC/IRWIN Wildfire Incidents wildfires_usa | National Interagency Fire Center / IRWIN | Public Domain (U.S. Government) | 1984 - 2024 | - |
| Wildfire incident data from NIFC and IRWIN systems including fire perimeters, burned area, duration, and geographic context. | ||||
| Global Fire Atlas global_fire_atlas | NASA / University of Maryland (Global Fire Atlas) | Public Domain (CC0 / U.S. Government) | 2015 - 2024 | 4 |
| Reduced Global Fire Atlas runtime lane for large individual wildfire events worldwide. The published event parquet supports event discovery first, while deeper progression detail remains available within the same pack for follow-up analysis when needed. | ||||