Wildland fire event data for the EQUATES project -- 1/1/2005 - 12/31/2017 CONUS

Wildland fire event polygons for 2004-2017 reconciled in SmartFire 2 for the EPA Air Quality Times Series (EQUATES) modeling project (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109022). These event polygons represent a combination of properties from a collection of remotely sensed and ground-based fire activity datasets. The primary underlying fire activity datasets for the fire event polygons are the Hazard Mapping System (HMS) remote sense fire product (https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html), SIT-ICS/209 Incident Reports (https://www.wildfire.gov/application/sit209), GeoMAC Fire Event polygons (https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nifc::historic-perimeters-combined-2000-2018-geomac/about), and the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) burn scar event perimeters (https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-download). This dataset includes events identified as over wildland and does not contain biomass burning events over agricultural areas, such as crop residue field burns. Additionally, certain grass fires, such as the annual prescribed fires in the Flint Hills region, have been removed for inclusion in a separate processing stream. Some minor updates have been made to the dataset since the publishing of the EQUATES emission inventories including removal of known errors related to issues in the underlying activity. Terms of Use: This content item is licensed under the US EPA Data Licensing Agreement for public use.