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    • National Interagency Fire Occurrence Sixth Edition 1992-2020 (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: April 1, 2026

    This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2020. It is the fifth update of a publication originally generated to support the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations. The following core data elements were required for records to be included in this data publication: discovery date, final fire size, and a point location at least as precise as a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) section (1-square mile grid). The data were transformed to conform, when possible, to the data standards of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), including an updated wildfire-cause standard (approved August 2020). Basic error-checking was performed and redundant records were identified and removed, to the degree possible. The resulting product, referred to as the Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD), includes 2.3 million geo-referenced wildfire records, representing a total of 180 million acres burned during the 29-year period. Identifiers necessary to link the point-based, final-fire-reporting information to published large-fire-perimeter and operational-situation-reporting datasets are included. 

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date April 3, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2026

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    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 3, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1f4a85fa0cc749fcabc35672f94cf410&sublayer=29
    Data First Published 2023-03-21
    Data Last Modified 2023-03-29
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 445a133e-a648-45a2-9718-86e483ab1a46
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::national-interagency-fire-occurrence-sixth-edition-1992-2020-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -178.8026,17.9397,-65.2569,70.3306
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8654726c10d540f72ac6ffda19835cd1c45a30c9de0db039817b3ff7ef48332b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -178.8026, 17.9397, -178.8026, 70.3306, -65.2569, 70.3306, -65.2569, 17.9397, -178.8026, 17.9397}

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