Announcements
MTBS has removed several attribute fields from the National Fire Occurrence Dataset. The
removed fields are Fire Year, Fire Month, Fire Day, WRS Path, WRS Row, P Acres, R Acres, State,
The complete dataset for 2016 fires is anticipated to be released Summer 2018. Please check back here for additional updates.
The annual MTBS training occurred April 18, 2018. You can find a link to a recorded version of the webinar and GIS exercise materials on our Training & Outreach page.
MTBS has removed several attribute fields from the National Burned Area Boundaries Dataset. The removed fields are Data Version, Revision Code, and Release Date.
At the beginning of the MTBS project (2006), Landsat imagery was not freely available and the project could not purchase more than two Landsat scenes per year for any path/row. Consequently, ideal imagery was not always used to map each fire. Image selection was often a compromise between optimum phenology and the number of fires that could be mapped.
MTBS released an additional 731 fires to MTBS.gov bringing the total number of fires mapped by the project to 19,227. This data release contains the remaining 2013 fires and a portion of the fires from the 2014 fire season.