Data¶

National Infrared Operations - USDA Forest Service National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) Unit collects infrared imagery over current wildfire incidents

National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) - is the focal point for coordinating the mobilization of resources for wildland fire and other incidents throughout the United States.

NIFC Statistics - statistics of current and past wildfire seasons

NIFC Wildland Fire Data - Federal interagency wildland fire maps and data for all

NPS Wildland Fire Risk Assessments

NPS Wildland Fire Applications

PaleoFire Database - Global paleofire databse

International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD) - paleo proxy (tree ring) data of past climate and wildfires.
North American Tree Ring Fire Scar Network - NOAA database of tree ring fire scar data for North America

USFS Fire Occurance 1990-2020 - Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020

Wildfire Risk - Wildfire risk to communities, curated risk data from USFS Research.

WIFIRE Data Commons - ML and AI for wildland fire datasets centered in California

Wildfire Decision Support System (WFDSS) - Wildfire decision support system GIS data for fire modelling

Weather¶

Ameriflux - eddy covariance data

Geographic Area Coordination Centers (GACC) - national interagency incident management coordination pages by region:

Earth Null School - dynamic vizualizations of Earth model and weather data

USGS Fire Danger Forecast

GACC Forecast Graphs

National Weather Service

National Fire Danger Rating System

RAMMB - Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) GOES-16/17 image animations.

Cyberinfrastructure for AI at the Edge (SAGE) - design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge

AI model training datasets¶

High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN)

HPWREN Fire Ignition image Library (FIgLib) - sequences of wildland fire images as seen from fixed cameras at HPWREN sites
FIgLib & SmokeyNet (Dewangan et al. 2022)

Wildfire smoke detections

Radiant Earth ML Hub - cloud-based open library dedicated to Earth observation training data and models for use with machine learning algorithms.

Hydrology¶

HydroShare - CUASHI's online collaboration environment for sharing data, models, and code

CZO - Critical Zone Observatory data (archived on HydroShare).

Geospatial Data (infrastructure, fuels, topography)¶

3DEP - USGS 3DEP lidar point clouds on AWS

USGS Lidar Explorer - Interactive web application for exploring and downloading USGS 3DEP lidar data

LANDFIRE - geospatial data and databases that describe vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States

Landscape Explorer - Interactive geospatial visualization and data exploration tool for landscape analysis

Microsoft Building Footprints - building footprints identified using ML/AI for the entire planet.

Microsoft Road Detectiions - ML/AI identified roads for the entire planet.

OpenTopography - NSF supported lidar and global elevation data

Environmental¶

Dead Trees Earth - tree mortality data

eBird - citizen science for ornithology

USFS Fire and Tree Mortality Database - USDA Forest Service database linking fire effects to tree mortality

USFS RMRS Understanding Post-Fire Tree Mortality - Rocky Mountain Research Station resources and research on post-fire tree mortality

EcoSML - NASA supported Ecological Spectral Model Library (EcoSML), a useful tool for finding spectral models.

Environmental Data Initiative - access to LTER and LTAR datasets online

National Phenology Network - citizen science data for vegetation phenology

NEON - National Ecological Observation Network (NEON) data and API

Open Forest Observatory - open-source forest structure data from lidar and photogrammetry

NeotomaDB - Neotoma paleo ecology database

National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Paleo Data Search - NCEI offers search and download of Paleoclimatic proxy data and Paleoclimate Reconstructions from the NOAA/World Data Service for Paleoclimatology archives.

Tall Timbers - a widely regarded information resource for the areas of fire ecology, prescribed fire science, game bird management, vertebrate ecology and forestry.

Earth Observation Systems¶

Drought View (University of Arizona) - satellite based drought monitoring assessment tool, uses NASA VIIRS & MODIS

EarthMap - user friendly tool for complex land monitoring powered by Google Earth Engine

LANCE - Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE)

NASA General Data Catalog

Planet Labs has signed a special use agreement with NASA to provide their data to researchers and academics.

RealEarth - is a data discovery and visualization platform developed at SSEC/CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support outreach and collaboration efforts of scientists.

SERVIR Global

Planetary Computer Data Catalog

Google Earth Engine¶

Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based geospatial analysis platform that combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities. GEE provides access to decades of historical Earth observation data and enables researchers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface without requiring local computational infrastructure.

Applications¶

The GEE community has developed hundreds of applications leveraging the platform's capabilities for wildland fire science, including fire detection algorithms, burn severity mapping tools, fuel moisture monitoring systems, and post-fire recovery assessments. These applications provide ready-to-use interfaces for analyzing fire-related phenomena across spatial and temporal scales.

Awesome GEE Applications - curated list of Google Earth Engine applications, including fire monitoring tools, vegetation indices, and remote sensing workflows

Community Data Catalog¶

The GEE Community Data Catalog extends the official Earth Engine data catalog by providing community-contributed datasets that are preprocessed, formatted, and ready for analysis within the GEE platform. For fire science, this includes specialized products not available in the standard catalog, such as high-resolution fuel maps, regional fire perimeters, and experimental fire danger indices.

Awesome GEE Community Datasets - community-maintained catalog with 500+ datasets

Fire-relevant datasets in the Community Catalog:

LANDFIRE Mosaics LF v2.0.0 - comprehensive vegetation, fuel, and fire regime datasets for the United States
United States Drought Monitor - weekly drought condition assessments affecting fire danger
Global Fire Atlas (2003-2016) - individual fire perimeters with size, duration, and daily spread characteristics