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    • National Interagency Fire Occurrence Fifth Edition 1992-2018 (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Note: This is a large dataset. To download, go to ArcGIS Open Data Set and click the download button, and under additional resources select the geodatabase or shapefile option. This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2018. It is the fourth 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. In addition to incorporating data for 2016-2018, some previously unavailable nonfederal wildfire records for the period 1999-2015 were acquired either directly from the state fire services (NH, NJ) or indirectly from an updated National Association of State Foresters database (AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, ID, IL, OK, SD) and added. The resulting product, referred to as the Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD), includes 2.17 million geo-referenced wildfire records, representing a total of 165 million acres burned during the 27-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. Additional Information

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c02f500b5a6d47e3b7320f1b34399c84&sublayer=27
    Data First Published 2022-03-15
    Data Last Modified 2023-03-29
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::national-interagency-fire-occurrence-fifth-edition-1992-2018-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -178.8026,17.9397,-65.2569,70.3306
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 737ce2403e982b952bb5f9fb63225e5e814256d083490248b015e14b5a8c41b5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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