Forest Service Research and Development collected this spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States. The archive covers a 20-year period from 1992 to 2011. It serves as a resource for accessing and preserving research data from FS R&D.
Use Cases
- Model wildfire risk based on historical occurrence locations.
- Analyze temporal trends in wildfire events across the United States.
- Integrate spatial wildfire data with other environmental datasets for research.
- Validate predictive models using a 20-year historical record.
Strengths
- Data covers a specific 20-year time range (1992-2011).
- Data is collected and funded by a federal research agency (Forest Service R&D).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D), U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Collection Method
- Research data collected and/or funded by FS R&D.
- Time Range
- 1992-2011
- Geography
- United States