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Description

Shapefiles indicating where fires occurred and their burned areas. Data on fires was collected through survey by Canadian fire management agencies. Data on burned area was calculated through a combination of survey data, aerial photography, and satellite data, such as from through MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat, and Sentinel-2.

Burned Area Composites

Reference

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  • Citation: Canadian Forest Service. National Burned Area Composite (NBAC). Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta. http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca.
  • Paper: Hall, R.J.; Skakun, R.S.; Metsaranta, J.M.; Landry, R.; Fraser, R.H.; Raymond, D.A.; Gartrell, J.M.; Decker, V. and Little, J.M. (2020). Generating annual estimates of forest fire disturbance in Canada: the National Burned Area Composite. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 10.1071/WF19201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19201
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Notes

  • Type: assimilated
  • Time Range: (1986-2019)
  • Time Resolution: daily (update frequency is yearly)
  • Spatial Range: West: -148.024495, East: -40.149327, North: 73.508116, South: 42.887526
  • Spatial Resolution: Most likely variable
  • Projection: Canada_Lambert_Conformal_Conic
  • Variables:
    • FIRECAUS - cause of the fire, 0: unknown, 1: known causes not covered by another category, 2: lightning, 3: industry (forestry, oil/gas, rail, agriculture, prescribed burn), 4: human (nonindustrial, recreational, arson)
    • BURNCLAS - 1: estimated 25% burned, 2: estimated 50% burned, 3: estimated 75% burned, 4: estimated 100% burned
  • Size: 2.3GB

Fire Cause (agg)

Burn Class

Related

Fire Polygons

NOTE: We do not use this dataset.

Reference

Notes

  • Type: observed
  • Time Range: (XXX-YYY), where XXX can be [1917-1980] and YYY can be [2013-2019] depending on region.
  • Time Resolution: daily (update frequency is yearly)
  • Spatial Range: West: -151.475479, East: -31.073202, North: 74.338657, South: 36.018333
  • Spatial Resolution: Most likely variable
  • Projection: NAD_1983_Lambert_Conformal_Conic
  • Variables:
    • CAUSE: cause of the fire, U: unknown, L: lightning, H: human, H-Pb: prescribed burn, Re: reburn
    • SIZE_HA: fire area in hectares (as reported from agency)
    • CALC_HA: fire area in hectares (calculated using GIS with Canada Albers Equal Area projection)
  • Size: 1.2GB
  • not all fires have been mapped
  • different mapping techniques were used across dataset
  • Analysis of Data

Size (Reported)

Size (Calculated)

Fire Points

NOTE: We do not use this dataset.

Reference

Notes

  • Type: observed
  • Time Range: (XXX-2019), where XXX can be [1946-2018] depending on region.
  • Time Resolution: daily (updated frequency is yearly)
  • Spatial Range: West: -176.497494, East: 0.000000, North: 83.384154, South: -6.367509
  • Spatial Resolution: Most likely variable
  • Projection: NAD_1983_Lambert_Conformal_Conic
  • Variables:
    • CAUSE: cause of the fire, U: unknown, L: lightning, H: human, H-Pb: prescribed burn, Re: reburn
    • SIZE_HA: fire area in hectares (as reported from agency)
    • FIRE_TYPE (string): type of fire
    • CFS_ECOZ: ecozone, refer to pg. 18-19
  • Size: 380MB
  • not all fires have been mapped
  • different mapping techniques were used across dataset
  • There is a "large fire" version with fires greater than 200 hectares (as reported by agency). Thought they are a small percentage of the fires, they cover more than 97% of the area burned.
  • Analysis of Data

Size (Reported)

Ecozones

Fire Intensity

NOTE: We do not use this dataset.

Reference

Notes

  • Size: 13GB