Distribution and Characteristics of Lightning-Ignited Wildfires in Boreal Forests - the BoLtFire database

This repository holds a dataset of lightning-ignited wildfires across the boreal biome. The BoLtFire dataset covers the period 2012 to 2022 and encompasses 6,228 fires - 2,042 in North America and 4,186 in Eurasia.

The layers included in this dataset are: FireID, StartDate, EndDate, FireYdear, AreaHa (burned area), ClassSize, BiomeName, EcoBiome, EcoName, EcoID, Realm, LCDN (Land cover number), LCName (land cover name), Country, Continent, HoldoverD (days), HoldoverRD (holdover rounded), IgnLat (Ignition location Latitude), IgnLong (Ignition Location Longitude), DisPol (Distance of the ignition location to the fire perimeter if it is located outside the polygon), and PerCheck (designates if the ignition location is within the fire perimeter or oustide the perimeter).

The datasets are available per continent (North America, Europe, and Asia) as shapefiles. The spatial reference system is Global LANd Cover mapping and Estimation (GLANCE) Grids - Version 01 CRS.