Description: Version Information:The data is updated yearly with fire perimeters from the previous fire season.Fire15_1 was released June 9th, 2016. The ALARM_DATE and CONT_DATE fields have been changed from STRING fields to DATE fields. In the many cases where only the year of a fire existed (ex. 19170000) the tool couldn't process the data and the entry is NULL. In those cases, the year can be found in the YEAR field.______________________________________________________________________________CAL FIRE, USDA Forest Service Region 5, BLM, NPS, Contract Counties and other agencies jointly maintain a comprehensive fire perimeter GIS layer for public and private lands throughout the state. The data covers fires back to 1878 and fires 10 acres and greater. The geodatabase contains separate feature classes for wildfires and for prescribed burns/ fuel treatments. Detailed metadata is provided for each individual feature class. ________________________________________________________________________________Historic Update Information:Fire14_1 was released in May, 2014. After release, the NPS supplied corretions for 14 wildfires and 67 prescribed burns. The corrected data was posted to FRAP's data download page as fire14_1 in late May. Fire 14_2 was released in July, 2015 to reflect that changes had been made to the original release in late May. Version 14_1 from late May is an exact copy of version 14_2 released in July.
Copyright Text: CAL FIRE recognizes the various partners that have contributed to this dataset, including USDA Forest Service Region 5, BLM, National Park Service, USFWS and numerous local agencies.