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Announcement
MTBS 2022 Fire: Quarterly Release (October 26, 2023)
MTBS has released 209 newly mapped fires from 2022 fire season. With this product release on https://www.mtbs.gov/ and associated interactive viewer - https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/, the total number of fires mapped by the program increased to 30,627.
MTBS 2021 Fire: Quarterly Release (August 9, 2023)
MTBS has released 257 newly mapped fires from 2021 fire season. This latest release completes the availability for all the fires from year 2021. This release also includes revisions to 399 previously mapped fires that are now updated in the archive. With this data release to MTBS.gov, the total number of fires mapped by the program increases to 30,418.
2020 Data Release (April 28, 2022)
The MTBS Program team has released 397 newly mapped fires from 2020 fire season. The release includes severity data for fires located across several western states and Alaska. This data release is in addition to the 417 mapped fires from 2020 fire season that were located across 21 eastern and mid-western states that were released in February 2022.
2020 Interim Data Release (February 15, 2022)
MTBS has released 417 newly mapped fires from 2020 fire season for 21 eastern and mid-western states. This release also adds dozens of revisions to previously mapped fires and released to the archive. With this data release to MTBS.gov, the total number of fires mapped by the project increases to 28,982.
MTBS Data Release (September 27, 2021)
MTBS has released the remaining 457 fire mappings for 2019, bringing the total release for 2019 fires to 810. This release also adds an additional 1,674 new fire mappings and dozens of revisions to previously mapped fires spanning the archive. With this data release to MTBS.gov, the total number of fires mapped by the project increases to 28,584.