Historical wildfire data : 1996 to 2005

Dataset including information on wildfires in the province of Alberta from 1996 to 2005, inclusive. Information tracked for each fire includes: cause, size, location (latitude and longitude, legal land description, and forest area), time and duration, weather conditions, staffing and physical resources used to suppress the fire, and area burned.

Data and Resources

Field Value
Date Issued 2006-01-01
Date Added to catalogue 2022-11-22
Creator Environment (1971-1992, 1999-2011)
Creator Environment (1971-1992, 1999-2011)
Date Created 2006-01-01
Date Modified 2018-11-01
Language English (Canadian)
License https://open.alberta.ca/licence
Organization Alberta Government
Theme Energy and Natural Resources
Update Frequency Once
Usage Info The Alberta Forest Service initiated the modern era of wildfire recordkeeping in 1931, the first complete fire season under provincial jurisdiction. Over the years, this information has been recorded, stored and made available in different formats. Starting in 1996, paper records were no longer being retained and wildfire history data have been entered at the field level on the Fire Information Resource Evaluation System (FIRES). A client-server architecture employed over a wide area network allows users to maintain a central database.
Groups
  • NSF
  • United States
Tags
  • NSF
  • United States
  • wildfires
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metadata_modified 2026-10-30T17:24:43.957141
notes Dataset including information on wildfires in the province of Alberta from 1996 to 2005, inclusive. Information tracked for each fire includes: cause, size, location (latitude and longitude, legal land description, and forest area), time and duration, weather conditions, staffing and physical resources used to suppress the fire, and area burned.
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title Historical wildfire data : 1996 to 2005