Wildfire Boundary Polygons from USGS and CalFire in cloud native formats

Cloud Native serializations of publicly available fire data from USGS and Calfire. Calfire data includes controlled burn treatments. Data through 2022

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Owner: Carl Boettiger
Created: 19 Mar 2024
Last Updated: 21 Aug 2025

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Snapshots of fire polygons data from multiple sources. Cloud-optimized formats include PMTiles and (Geo)Parquet serializations.

USGS MTBS Fire perimiters:

Original shapefiles for burned area extent downloaded from: https://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/downloads/sciweb1/shared/MTBS_Fire/data/composite_data/burned_area_extent_shapefile/mtbs_perimeter_data.zip

Calfire

Original geodatabase file up to year 2022 downloaded from: https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/fire-resource-assessment-program/gis-mapping-and-data-analytics

PMTiles created using gdal 3.8.4 via

ogr2ogr -dsco MAX_SIZE=50000000 -dsco MAX_FEATURES=20000000 calfire-2022.pmtiles CALFIRE/fire22_1.gdb

Example map created using map.py

Wildfire Hazard Potential

Dillon, Gregory K. 2023. Wildfire Hazard Potential for the United States (270-m), version 2023. 4th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0047-4