Global Monthly Mean Burned Area (km², 0.25°) Averaged Across 2019–2024 — Derived from ESA FireCCI Sentinel-3 SYN v1.1

This dataset provides global monthly mean burned area (in square kilometers) averaged across the years 2019 to 2024. It is derived from the European Space Agency (ESA) Fire Disturbance Climate Change Initiative (FireCCI) Sentinel-3 SYN Burned Area Grid Product, version 1.1. The FireCCI product (FireCCIS311) combines multispectral reflectance data from the Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) and Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) sensors onboard the Sentinel-3A and 3B satellites, complemented by VIIRS thermal anomaly detections, to identify and quantify burned areas globally. The FireCCIS311 grid product summarizes pixel-level burned area information into a regular global grid at 0.25 × 0.25 degree spatial resolution and monthly temporal resolution. For this derived dataset, all available monthly grids from 2019 to 2024 were processed to calculate the long-term mean burned area for each calendar month (January–December). The resulting layers represent the climatological mean monthly fire activity, smoothing inter-annual variability and highlighting consistent spatial and seasonal patterns in global fire occurrence and extent. Each GeoTIFF file corresponds to one calendar month and contains the mean burned area per 0.25° grid cell, expressed in km². The dataset is suitable for use in ecological and environmental analyses, including studies of fire-climate interactions, vegetation dynamics, biogeography, ecological niche modeling, and assessments of disturbance regimes. All rasters cover the global extent (-180° to 180°, -90° to 90°) at 0.25° (~25 km) resolution in the WGS 84 coordinate reference system (EPSG: 4326). Pixel values indicate the mean burned area (km²) per grid cell; zero values correspond to grid cells where no burned area was detected across the 2019–2024 period. File contents:FireCCI_BurnedArea_MonthlyMean_Global_0.25deg.zip └── 12 GeoTIFF files: FireCCI_BurnedArea_Mean_01.tif – FireCCI_BurnedArea_Mean_12.tif (one for each calendar month, January–December) Data source:ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (FireCCI): Sentinel-3 SYN Burned Area Grid Product, version 1.1Chuvieco E., Pettinari M.L., Lizundia-Loiola J., Khairoun A., Danne O., Boettcher M., Storm T. (2024).ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci): Sentinel-3 SYN Burned Area Grid product, version 1.1.NERC Environmental Data Service (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis).Source URL: catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/da8e669a74334c82a56e0b470bc4ef04 License:Data derived under the Open Government Licence (OGL, UK) as distributed by the ESA CCI Fire project through the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). Redistribution and derivative works are permitted with proper attribution to the original authors and project. Chuvieco E. et al. (2024). ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (FireCCI): Sentinel-3 SYN Burned Area Grid product, version 1.1. NERC EDS CEDA.