"Understanding of the conditions that contribute to wildfire ignitions and impacts increases capacity to mitigate wildfire risks. The Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD) contains information on the location, jurisdiction, discovery time, cause, and final size of more than 2 million wildfires from 1992 through 2020. To each of those wildfire records, we added information on 267 physical, biological, social, and administrative attributes. As we will demonstrate, these publicly available data can be used to answer numerous questions about the circumstances associated with human- and lightning-caused wildfires. We will share examples of how the enhanced FPA FOD data can support descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive wildfire analytics, including the development of machine learning models."
This event is part of a series:
Human Causes and Human Consequences of Wildfires in the Western United States
A three-part webinar series in January 2025 produced by the Northwest Fire Science Consortium in collaboration with the other western Fire Science Exchanges (Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, California Fire Science Consortium, Southern Rockies Fire Science Network, Southwest Fire Science Consortium, and the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network). Please note that each webinar requires a separate registration.