Western Micronesia wildfires (2016+): 2nd edition

This data publication contains vector polygon spatial data showing burn areas from wildfires in 2016-2024 on Guam, Yap State (Federated States of Micronesia-FSM), and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands-CNMI (Saipan, Tinian and Rota Islands). Burn areas from wildfire in 2015 are also provided for Guam.
The purpose of this study was to summarize annual area and forest resources burned in Western Micronesia.
The first edition of these data (Dendy et al. 2023; https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0012) was published on 03/17/2023 and included data from 2016-2021. This second edition, published on 01/30/2024, includes the addition of data from 2022-2023 and data are now provided as a single shapefile and geopackage. On 01/22/2025, data for 2024 were added as well as a few minor metadata updates.

For more information about these data and this study, see Frazier et al. (2023).