Fire Behavior Assessment Team: plot location data

This data publication contains the location data for the plots in which pre- and/or post-fire fuels, and fire behavior data were collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) on a subset of wildland fires in the United States from 2003-2017. Logistics (proximity to instrumentation/crew members), funding, fire activity, and monitoring questions influenced the geographic regions and fires where sampling was attempted, for instance, fuel treatments recorded in the Forest Service Activity Tracking System (FACTS), as well as tree mortality areas, were each targets for FBAT sampling in the past. FBAT is an interagency group of primarily Forest Service employees with both monitoring and fireline qualifications which collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. This package contains a shapefile for each fire that includes the point locations of each plot. The fuels and fire behavior data are archived separately.
The purpose of these data is to provide the location data for spatial applications of the FBAT fuels/fire behavior/fire severity datasets.
For more information about FBAT data see: https://www.fs.fed.us/adaptivemanagement/projects_main_fbat.php. Data were originally published on 10/03/2018. Minor metadata updates were made on 06/13/2019. On 04/16/2020 minor updates were made to the metadata and these data were updated to include fires through 2019, which included: Alder (2019) and Walker (2019). On 12/03/2020 this data publication was updated to include a supplemental file that provides a diagram of the FBAT plot layout and a brief list of key method changes throughout the years FBAT has taken data to present (2020).