Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Burned Areas Boundaries (ver. 8.0, April 2024)

Publication Date

2021-01-13

Start Date

1984

End Date

2022

Last Revision

2024-04-29

U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, and Nelson, K., 2021, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (ver. 8.0, April 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IED7RZ.

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The data generated by MTBS will be used to identify national trends in burn severity, providing information necessary to monitor the effectiveness of the National Fire Plan and Healthy Forests Restoration Act. MTBS is sponsored by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), a multi-agency oversight group responsible for implementing and coordinating the National Fire Plan and Federal Wildland Fire Management Policies. The MTBS project objective is to provide consistent, 30-meter spatial resolution burn severity data and burned area delineations that will serve four primary user groups including: 1. National policies and policy makers such as the National Fire Plan and WFLC which require information about long-term trends in burn severity and recent burn severity impacts within vegetation types, fuel models, condition classes, and land management activities. 2. Field management units that benefit from mid to broad scale GIS-ready maps and data for pre- and post-fire assessment and monitoring. Field units that require finer scale burn severity data will also benefit from increased efficiency, reduced costs, and data consistency by starting with MTBS data. 3. Existing databases from other comparably scaled programs, such as Fire Regime and Condition Class (FRCC) within LANDFIRE, that will benefit from MTBS data for validation and updating of geospatial datasets. 4. Academic and government agency research entities interested in fire severity data over significant geographic and temporal extents.

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