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    • The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: Wildfire Burn Severity Class 1984-2018 (MTBS)

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2025

    This dataset represents percent area burned in each burn severity class for wildfires within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies for each year for 1984-2018.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. See: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity-burned-area-boundaries-feature-layer-27201 and https://www.mtbs.gov/product-descriptions

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://www.epa.gov/node/276204
    https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 14, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P3Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from LakeCat Harvest

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 14, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water,
    Maintainer
    Identifier 7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595
    Data First Published 2015-04-23
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-11-13
    Rights public (Data asset is or could be made publicly available to all without restrictions)
    Category environment
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3Y
    Bureau Code 020:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/OW/metadata/LakeCat.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/lakecat-metrics-and-definitions
    Data Dictionary Type text/html
    Harvest Object Id ea1b044a-69bd-48e1-a7d6-f05b94dd6b80
    Harvest Source Id 54618c4c-64b6-4a3b-9748-ad612299d8a0
    Harvest Source Title LakeCat Harvest
    Homepage URL https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/lakecat-dataset
    License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
    Old Spatial -125.0,24.5,-66.5,49.5
    Program Code 020:072
    Related Documents https://www.epa.gov/node/276204, https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f387b45fb1724ae29f3a8fbcc42d0785002eeabfce61adff069907d184ce2b26
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -125.0, 24.5, -125.0, 49.5, -66.5, 49.5, -66.5, 24.5, -125.0, 24.5}
    Temporal 2015/2030

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