Federal Fire History Internet Map Service

Federal Fire History IMS is an official Department of the Interior Website provided by the Bureau of Land Management

http://www.firehistory.blm.gov/firehistory/index.html

Introduction

The Federal Fire History Internet Map Service (IMS) is an official Department of the Interior Website provided by the Bureau of Land Management that provides users with an interactive report generator and mapping tool to survey and research wildland fire history. The data available for query in this application contains over 423,000 historical fire records for fires that occurred from 1980 through 2002 in the United States.

Data Available:

The data available for query contains over 423,000 historical fire records for fires that occurred from 1980 through 2002 in the United States.

Data Layers:

The federal fire history interface allows the user to query fire history based on the following attributes:

Fire Class Size
Fire Size (Acreage)
Fire Type
Protection Type
Cause and SubCause
Fire Name
Geographic Region
State
Lat/Long Coordinates
Agency and Unit-Id
Date

?layers that can currently be displayed on the map (some are scale sensitive)?

Data Range:

Data is from 1980 through 2002 in the United States.

?range/location of any archives?

Data Collection:

The fire history data layer compiled for this application is a collection of fire records from the following five federal agencies under the United States Department of Interior (DOI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA):

Data is stored on a NT Quad Zeon server running the NT operating system.

Data Analysis:

Data is displayed only, no predictions are made.

Presentation/Features:

?map features?

The fire history data is available free as an ArcIMS streaming service or as downloadable shapefiles. To select specific fire history data, query the fire history data using the query form from the map interface that provides easy selection and quick download of fire history points.

?level of detail (scale), printability?

Users can download all fire history data from the Federal Fire History Homepage. This web site is updated with the latest data available on an annual basis.

http://www.firehistory.blm.gov/firehistory/about.html

Users:

The site is intended for users in the Wildland Fire and GIS community.

Contact:

Federal Fire History IMS is an official Department of the Interior Website provided by the Bureau of Land Management.