Rebuilding and new development for selected California wildfires, 1970-1999

This data publication contains detailed data on building survival and loss, as well as rebuilding and new construction, for 11 large wildfires that burned between 1970 and 1999 in California. We digitized the location of every building within the wildfire perimeter and up to 500 meters outside at multiple time steps. The 11 wildfires were located in both Northern and Southern California, spanning multiple ecological and socioeconomic zones. Detailed descriptions of each of these wildfires is included in this publication. Geospatial data include wildfire perimeters as polygons and building locations as points. We also provide a comma-delimited ASCII text file containing coordinates and attributes for each building.
To provide a spatially explicit record of building presence, loss, recovery, and new development before and after wildfires in California (events from 1970-1999).
These data were published on 12/21/2020. Minor metadata updates were made on 04/18/2024.