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    • Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Conterminous United States (Map Service)

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Burn severity layers are thematic images depicting severity as unburned to low, low, moderate, high, and increased greenness (increased post-fire vegetation response). The layer may also have a sixth class representing a mask for clouds, shadows, large water bodies, or other features on the landscape that erroneously affect the severity classification. This data has been prepared as part of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project. Due to the lack of comprehensive fire reporting information and quality Landsat imagery, burn severity for all targeted MTBS fires are not available. Additionally, the availability of burn severity data for fires occurring in the current and previous calendar year is variable since these data are currently in production and released on an intermittent basis by the MTBS project. Direct Download - https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-downloadMTBS Burn Area Boundary Full Metadata - https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.MTBS_BURN_AREA_BOUNDARY.xmlMTBS Fire Occurrence Point Full Metadata - https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.MTBS_FIRE_OCCURRENCE_PT.xmlFS Geodata Clearinghouse Downloads Page - https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?xmlKeyword=MTBS

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

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-06-08
    Data Last Modified 2023-05-23
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    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity-conterminous-united-states-map-service
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -127.0350,24.3670,-73.9490,50.4010
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
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