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Atlas of digital polygon fire extents for Idaho and western Montana: 2nd edition

Version 2 2025-01-22, 04:52
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posted on 2025-01-22, 04:52 authored by Carly E. Gibson, Penelope Morgan, Aaron M. Wilson
This coverage includes fire perimeters recorded from 1889 through 2008 in polygon coverages acquired from 12 National Forests and two National Parks as described in the Data Set Credit section. It includes 7,550 fire polygons recorded from an area covering 13,839,584 hectares that include 44% of Idaho, Montana west of the Continental Divide, and Yellowstone National Park.
Compile all digitally documented fire perimeters on National Forest and Park lands in the northern Rocky Mountain region in order to infer the climate drivers of regional-fire years.
The first edition of these data was made available on 05/07/2009 (see Cross-Reference section), and included data from 1889-2003. This second edition adds fire polygons for five additional years of data. Minor metadata updates were made on 12/20/2016 and 01/17/2025.

Funding

USDA-FS

History

Data contact name

Penny Morgan

Data contact email

pmorgan@uidaho.edu

Publisher

USDA Forest Service, Forest Service Research Data Archive

Use limitations

These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation: Gibson, Carly E.; Morgan, Penelope; Wilson, Aaron M. 2014. Atlas of digital polygon fire extents for Idaho and western Montana. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2009-0006-2

Temporal Extent Start Date

1889-01-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2008-12-31

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

Idaho, Montana west of the Continental Divide, and Yellowstone National Park

ISO Topic Category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • boundaries

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

Forestry, Wildland Management

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:96 - Forest Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:059 - Management Activities

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Identifier

RDS-2009-0006-2