Georgia Fire Locations

This dataset includes a subset of records from the National Interagency Fire Occurrence 6th Edition 1992-2020, published by the U.S. Forest Service. The Georgia Fire Locations dataset, ga_fires.csv, includes fires occurring in the state of Georgia from 2016 through 2020.

Usage

ga_fires

Format

`ga_fires`

A comma separated file with 16,195 rows and 11 columns:

Id: Unique identifier of the incident
Name: Descriptive name of fire
Year: Year of the incident discovery
Date: Date of incident discovery
CauseType: Reason the fire occurred (Human, Natural, Missing, Unknown)
Event: Event or circumstance that started or led to fire
ControlDate: Date fire was declared controlled or contained
Acres: Estimate of total area burned
Owner: Agency responsible for responding at origin
Lat: Latitude (NAD83) for point location of the fire (decimal degrees)
Lon: Longitude (NAD83) for point location of the fire (decimal degrees)

Source

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-interagency-fire-occurrence-sixth-edition-1992-2020-feature-layer #nolint

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2013-0009.6

Details

National Interagency Fire Occurrence records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations. Data are available for use under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 License.

References

Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 (FPA_FOD_20221014). 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6