Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Burned Area Boundaries (Feature Layer)
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (including wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico from the beginning of the Landsat Thematic Mapper archive to the present. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer is a vector polygon shapefile of the location of all currently inventoried fires occurring between calendar year 1984 and the current MTBS release for CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Please visit https://mtbs.gov/announcements to determine the current release. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available or fires were not discernable from available imagery.
This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources:
- ISO-19139 metadata
- ArcGIS Hub Dataset
- ArcGIS GeoService
- https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IED7RZ
- https://www.mtbs.gov/
- OGC WMS
- CSV
- GeoJSON
- Shapefile
- KML
Funding
USDA-FS
History
Data contact name
USFSEnterpriseContentData contact email
SM.FS.data@usda.govPublisher
U.S. Forest ServiceTheme
- Geospatial
Geographic Coverage
{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"type": "Feature", "properties": {}, "geometry": {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-166.1885, 17.9474], [-65.3382, 17.9474], [-65.3382, 70.1589], [-166.1885, 70.1589], [-166.1885, 17.9474]]]}}]}ISO Topic Category
- environment
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
Forestry, Wildland ManagementOMB Bureau Code
- 005:96 - Forest Service
OMB Program Code
- 005:059 - Management Activities
Pending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public