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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for 1984 (ver. 5.0, August 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
1984
Last Revision
2023-08-03

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, and Nelson, K., 2021, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic (ver. 8.0, April 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NETC0T.

Summary

The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 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 is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Forest Service, Kurtis Nelson
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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mtbs_CONUS_1984.xml
“1984 metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		21.89 KB application/fgdc+xml
mtbs_AK_1984.zip
“AK data” 		262.02 KB application/zip
mtbs_CONUS_1984.zip
“CONUS data” 		2 MB application/zip

Purpose

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 LANDFIRE, that will benefit from MTBS data for validation and updating of geospatial data sets. 4. Academic and government agency research entities interested in fire severity data over significant geographic and temporal extents.

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