Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Burned Areas Boundaries for 1984-2022 (ver. 9.0, August 2024)

Description

The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (including wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period of 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 polygon shapefile of the location of all currently inventoried fires occurring between calendar year 1984 and 2022 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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5e7229b8e4b01d509268afba.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IED7RZ

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  • location
  • alaska
  • mtbs
  • prescribed-fire
  • burn-severity
  • puerto-rico
  • burned-area
  • continental-u-s
  • wildfire
  • hawaii
  • landsat
  • united-states
  • usgs-5e7229b8e4b01d509268afba
  • fire-occurrence
  • sentinel
  • us
  • hi
  • differenced-normalized-burn-ratio
  • fire-location
  • pr
  • normalized-burn-ratio
  • wildland-fire
  • conus
  • imagerybasemapsearthcover
  • ak

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