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    • Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Fire Occurrence Locations (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity MTBS project assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (includes wildfire, wildland fire use, and prescribed fire) 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 point of the location of all currently inventoried and mappable 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. The point location represents the geographic centroid for the _BURN_AREA_BOUNDARY polygon(s) associated with each fire. Metadata

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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
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=81284bfaf86a4fa2a7d49c74424ffe1e&sublayer=62
    Data First Published 2017-05-04
    Data Last Modified 2022-08-29
    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 86d351df-eff0-4dd5-8534-edd7901561fc
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity-fire-occurrence-locations-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -166.0911,17.9566,-65.3506,70.1393
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cbaf42b5defa618b34c50cad0c64fd9e79c681655186e381183abe8cc01e8c76
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -166.0911, 17.9566, -166.0911, 70.1393, -65.3506, 70.1393, -65.3506, 17.9566, -166.0911, 17.9566}

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