Fuel treatment and previous fire effects on daily fire management costs

This publication contains tabular data used to evaluate the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on daily wildland fire management costs. The data represent daily Forest Service fire management costs for a sample of 56 fires that burned between 2008 and 2012 throughout the conterminous United States. Included in the data is a suite of spatially derived variables used to control for variation in daily fire management costs, including topography, fire weather, fuel loading, remoteness, and human populations-at-risk. These data were extracted using daily fire progression maps produced using the methods outlined in Parks (2014).
The purpose of these data was to quantify the relationship between daily fire management costs and encounters with fuel treatments and previously burned areas. These data were the primary source of information used to construct empirical models of daily fire management costs.