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    • Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Conterminous United States

    Metadata Updated: September 2, 2025

    The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. 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 thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires were not discernable from available imagery.

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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 May 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=aeefe6c234034c4c95701d6233851f16
    Data First Published 2024-05-06
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    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
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    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-mtbs-conterminous-united-states
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -127.5794,23.6810,-65.8717,51.3201
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8e5d3213efad247be8081ec5cdeb9407e01214b628c5617c51c71b00f7078acd
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