Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS)

The Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group provides authoritative geospatial data products under the interagency Wildland Fire Data Program

About the Dataset

This dataset report locations for fires in the United states since 2019. The source provides APIs to get historical and Year to date(YTD) data.

Instructions

We use the WFIGS API to get data for US fires.

To explore the API, use the API Explorer.

Sample call: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/arcgis/rest/services/Fire_History_Locations_Public/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=InitialLatitude,InitialLongitude,InitialResponseAcres,InitialResponseDateTime,UniqueFireIdentifier,IncidentName,IncidentTypeCategory,IrwinID,FireCauseSpecific,FireCauseGeneral,FireCause,FireDiscoveryDateTime,ContainmentDateTime,ControlDateTime,IsCpxChild,CpxID,DiscoveryAcres,DailyAcres,POOFips,POOState,EstimatedCostToDate,TotalIncidentPersonnel,UniqueFireIdentifier&outSR=4326&orderByFields=FireDiscoveryDateTime&f=json&resultType=standard

This will return paged fire records, and we need to iterate through these pages to get the full output.

Downloading and Processing Data

To download and process WFIGS fire location data, run

python3 wfigs_data.py

Running this command generates the 'processed_data.csv' file.

TMCF

'wfigs.tmcf' has the tmcf used to convert the data into nodes.