Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity and Burn Severity Portal – a clearing house of fire severity and extent information
Dates
Start Date
1984
Summary
The various post-fire data products available on the Burn Severity Portal are produced using satellite imagery. The timing of the satellite imagery used, relative to the fire event, typically depends on the vegetation type and structure where the fire occurred. Each mapping program produces a suite of data products based on user intended user needs. For more information about each of the programs, please refer to each area individually. Requests are made for burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland [...]
Summary
The various post-fire data products available on the Burn Severity Portal are produced using satellite imagery. The timing of the satellite imagery used, relative to the fire event, typically depends on the vegetation type and structure where the fire occurred. Each mapping program produces a suite of data products based on user intended user needs. For more information about each of the programs, please refer to each area individually. Requests are made for burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. The 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. This community will house the current MTBS information, Burn Severity information, previous versions, and information for upcoming releases. For more product specific information and details see: https://www.mtbs.gov/ and https://burnseverity.cr.usgs.gov/.
Picotte, J.J., Bhattarai, K., Howard, D. et al. Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program mapping production procedures and data products. fire ecol 16, 16 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-020-00076-y