Interactions of 2021 Schneider Springs burned area, containment lines, PODs, and suppression success

In August of 2021 the Schnieder Springs fire ignited on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington, where it burned through 113,689 acres of rugged terrain with a number of factors affecting fire behavior and eventual containment. For areas where the fire burned, observational data were developed using a rasterization approach at a 30-meter resolution consistent with LANDFIRE spatial products, where each pixel center was converted to a point location and populated with fire behavior drivers and mediators. This data publication includes the following data: weather, fuels, topography, the construction of containment lines, the presence of previously identified potential containment locations, and the number of ground-based firefighters assigned to the incident on a day-by-day basis.
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the relative importance of control line construction, and the occurrence of Potential Operational Delineations, alongside other drivers of fire behavior and fire management outcomes.
For more information about this study and these data, see Young et al. (2025).