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National Park Service Fire Occurrence Dataset Point Locations for 1984-2024

The National Park Service (NPS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer is a vector point shapefile of the location of all NPS-requested burn severity fires, occurring during calendar year 1984 and 2024 for CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires were not discernable from available imagery. Assessments requested by the NPS may not meet the size criteria, but otherwise adhere to all procedural and quality standards held by the MTBS Program.

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Author(s) United States Geological orcid, US Forest Service orcid, Kurtis Nelson orcid
Publication Date 2025-01-10
Beginning Date of Data 1984
Ending Date of Data 2024
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P97UMU6K
Citation Geological, U.S., Service, U.F., and Nelson, K., 2025, National Park Service Fire Occurrence Dataset Point Locations for 1984-2024: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97UMU6K.
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Metadata Date 2025-01-29
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