IRIS-Wildfire: High-Resolution Aerial and Street View Imagery of 2025 Los Angeles Fires

February/March and September 2025 data collection captured the immediate and post-event effects of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles. This dataset provides high-resolution aerial and street view imagery focused on infrastructure performance within the wildland-urban interface. It supports research on fire spread, damage assessment, and the effectiveness of fire prevention methods in densely populated areas.

Use Cases

• Assessing damage to buildings, roads, and utilities based on high-resolution aerial imaging.
• Examining structure-to-structure fire spread factors using detailed ground-based street view imagery.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of firebreaks and other prevention methods from geospatial data.
• Improving wildfire spread prediction models with real-world data from a major urban event.
• Analyzing change over time in affected communities by comparing February/March and September 2025 collections.

Strengths

• Data has a high level of detail, specifically focused on infrastructure in densely populated WUI areas.
• Temporal coverage includes two collection periods (February/March and September 2025) to capture change.
• Collection is supported by a documented NSF research project (Award #2524950) and the NHERI RAPID Facility.

Limitations

• Column names and specific file formats are not provided in any source description.
• Dataset size and row counts are unknown across all platforms.
• One source lists 'None' for license, while another specifies 'Open Data Commons Attribution', creating a conflict.

Provenance

Source

RAPID: Infrastructure Resilience and Impact Study for Wildfire-affected Infrastructure in Los Angeles (IRIS-Wildfire) project, NSF Award #2524950.

Collection Method

Data collection via high-resolution aerial imaging and street view imagery (SVI) using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS/drones).

Time Range

February/March 2025 to September 2025

Freshness

2025-09-10 17:41:53

Geography

Los Angeles region, specifically Pacific Palisades, Malibu (Palisades Fire) and Altadena, Pasadena (Eaton Fire).