Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (ver. 7.0, January 2024)
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (including wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period of 1984 and beyond. All fires reported as greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. MTBS produces a series of geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. This map layer includes a vector point shapefile and a burned area boundary shapefile of the location of all currently inventoried fires occurring between calendar year 1984 and 2022 for CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires were not discernable from available imagery.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Title | Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (ver. 7.0, January 2024) |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9IED7RZ |
| Authors | Kurtis Nelson |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Science Analytics and Synthesis Program |
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