Historical Fire Perimeters (Firemap API) for FARSITE

This IPython notebook retrieves historical fire perimeters from the WIFIRE Firemap API. The user must provide a fire incident name and year of occurrence. The notebook fetches perimeter polygons and timestamps for the specified fire and downloads the data to GeoJSON files.

Data and Resources

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creationMethod <p>This IPython notebook was designed for the purpose of integrating with a wildfire digital twin workflow in a National Data Platform workspace. Perimeter data was retrieved via the WIFIRE Firemap API (https://firemap.sdsc.edu/).</p>
creatorEmail h7ahmed@ucsd.edu
creatorName Hena Ahmed
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docsURL https://github.com/hahmed17/wildfire-digital-twin/blob/3b77164a0e6c367fdc04b83b90b2dbe4d01b6c0c/data/Firemap_perimeters.ipynb
issueDate 2026-02-18
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lastUpdateDate 2026-02-18
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pocEmail h7ahmed@ucsd.edu
pocName Hena Ahmed
publisherEmail h7ahmed@ucsd.edu
publisherName Hena Ahmed
purpose <p>This code was created because there is no other available code for retrieving historical perimeter updates data for a wildfire digital twin workflow. The perimeter updates sustain a digital twin of the user-specified fire incident and are used as inputs for sequential calls to FARSITE simulations (https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/farsite) and Ensemble Kalman Filtering for data assimilation.</p>
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usageInfo <p>Install requirements by running ./install_packages.sh in a command line. Run the IPython notebook from top to bottom cells to download timestamped perimeter polygons that can be used for a a closed-loop wildfire digital twin workflow.</p>
Groups
  • NSF
  • United States
Tags
  • California
  • Event Polygon
  • NSF
  • United States
  • ensemble-kalman-filtering
  • farsite
  • firemap
  • historical-perimeters
  • perimeters
  • wildfire
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metadata_created 2026-10-30T17:07:37.223927
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T17:07:37.223932
notes <p>This IPython notebook retrieves historical fire perimeters from the WIFIRE Firemap API. The user must provide a fire incident name and year of occurrence. The notebook fetches perimeter polygons and timestamps for the specified fire and downloads the data to GeoJSON files.</p>
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title Historical Fire Perimeters (Firemap API) for FARSITE