Prior to the MTBS.gov website update in Summer 2017, this dataset had multipart features displaying a separate record for each polygon (i.e., multipart features exploded). In the current version of the website, multipart features in the attribute table have been modified to reflect a one-to-one relationship to the number of published fires (i.e., multipart features unexploded). Therefore, the number of records in the attribute table is reduced and accounts for the discrepancy in the number of records between the two versions.

The MTBS project has released a new version of the QGIS Fire Mapping Tool (FMT). The FMT is now compatible with QGIS 2.x and 3.x with this release.

The MTBS project has released the NDVI Profile Tool. This interactive web application gives users the ability to display a multi-temporal NDVI profile that is spatially averaged by a user-defined Landsat Path/Row and categorized by land cover type.