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The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: Wildfire Burn Severity Class 1984-2018 (MTBS)

Metadata Updated: February 5, 2025

This dataset represents percent area burned in each burn severity class for wildfires within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies for each year for 1984-2018.The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity MTBS project assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (includes wildfire, wildland fire use, and prescribed fire) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico from the beginning of the Landsat Thematic Mapper archive to the present. See: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity-burned-area-boundaries-feature-layer-27201 and https://www.mtbs.gov/product-descriptions

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

Downloads & Resources

References

https://www.epa.gov/node/276204
https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 14, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025
Data Update Frequency R/P3Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from LakeCat Harvest

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 14, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 5, 2025
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA), Pacific Ecological Systems Division (PESD),
Maintainer
Identifier 7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595
Data First Published 2015-04-23
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2023-11-13
Rights public (Data asset is or could be made publicly available to all without restrictions)
Category environment
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P3Y
Bureau Code 020:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/NHEERL/WED/NonGeo/LakeCat.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/lakecat-metrics-and-definitions
Data Dictionary Type text/html
Harvest Object Id 0ba82008-1df8-4b18-92b5-f771178adf70
Harvest Source Id 54618c4c-64b6-4a3b-9748-ad612299d8a0
Harvest Source Title LakeCat Harvest
Homepage URL https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/lakecat-dataset
License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Old Spatial -125.0,24.5,-66.5,49.5
Program Code 020:072
Related Documents https://www.epa.gov/node/276204, https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 4a91da4f5900f869290f6bbeaddb633280d1b5b978e4879f48cdd266a6687170
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -125.0, 24.5, -125.0, 49.5, -66.5, 49.5, -66.5, 24.5, -125.0, 24.5}
Temporal 2015/2030

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