FIRESTAT Fire Occurrence - Yearly Update (Feature Layer)

The FIRESTAT (Fire Statistics System) Fire Occurrence point layer represents ignition points, or points of origin, from which individual wildland fires started on National Forest System lands. The source is the FIRESTAT database, which contains records of fire occurrence, related fire behavior conditions, and the suppression actions taken by management taken from the Individual Wildland Fire Report. This publicly available dataset is updated annually for all years previous to January 1 on or after February 16th.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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identifier https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::firestat-fire-occurrence-yearly-update-feature-layer
issued 2019-07-17
landingPage https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::firestat-fire-occurrence-yearly-update-feature-layer
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
metadata_type geospatial
modified 2021-11-26
old-spatial -177.7217,0,121.4856,84.9217
programCode {005:059}
publisher U.S. Forest Service
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash 92e6e79c49fea1ff6562af68cd8bb271d9438432
source_schema_version 1.1
spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-177.7217, 0], [-177.7217, 84.9217], [121.4856, 84.9217], [121.4856, 0], [-177.7217, 0]]]}
theme {geospatial,"ignition points",FIRESTAT,wildfire,"fire occurrence"}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • fire-occurrence
  • firestat
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • open-data
  • united-states
  • usfs
  • wildland-fires
isopen True
license_id cc-by
license_title Creative Commons Attribution
license_url http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
maintainer USFSEnterpriseContent
maintainer_email SM.FS.data@usda.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T10:02:11.986469
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T10:02:11.986473
notes The FIRESTAT (Fire Statistics System) Fire Occurrence point layer represents ignition points, or points of origin, from which individual wildland fires started on National Forest System lands. The source is the FIRESTAT database, which contains records of fire occurrence, related fire behavior conditions, and the suppression actions taken by management taken from the Individual Wildland Fire Report. This publicly available dataset is updated annually for all years previous to January 1 on or after February 16th.
num_resources 6
num_tags 13
title FIRESTAT Fire Occurrence - Yearly Update (Feature Layer)