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Title:
Large wildfire Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) report-generated data for the western United States, 2002-2016
Author(s):
Young, Jesse D.; Evans, Alexander M.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Thode, Andrea; Meyer, Marc D.; Hedwall, Shaula J.; McCaffrey, Sarah M.; Shin, Patrick; Huang, Ching-Hsun
Publication Year:
2021
How to Cite:
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Young, Jesse D.; Evans, Alexander M.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Thode, Andrea; Meyer, Marc D.; Hedwall, Shaula J.; McCaffrey, Sarah M.; Shin, Patrick; Huang, Ching-Hsun. 2021. Large wildfire Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) report-generated data for the western United States, 2002-2016. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0100
Abstract:
This data publication includes data on wildfire incident identification, location, weather, cause, consequence, and management tactic for wildfires in the western United States greater than 40.5 hectares in size which were reported from 2002-2016. Data are derived from Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) interagency reports from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group database. These data are used to understand how wildland fire management strategies have differed across the western United States in recent years and how management has changed since the 2009 Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy. Fire weather captured a manager’s intent and allocation of fire management resources relative to burning conditions, where a manager’s desire and ability to suppress is either complemented by fire weather, at odds with fire weather, or put aside due to other priorities.

Keywords:
environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Environment and People; Decision making, public involvement; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Wildland/urban interface; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; Policies and law; burned area boundaries; decision making; dispersion; fire management strategy; hazards; managed wildfires; policy analysis; resource objective; regression-discontinuity; suppression; wildland fire management; wildfire mitigation; wildland fire policy; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; western United States; Arizona; California; Colorado; Idaho; Montana; Oregon; Nevada; New Mexico; Utah; Washington; Wyoming; Great Basin; Inland Empire; Northwest; Rocky Mountain; Southwest
Related publications:
  • Young, Jesse D.; Evans, Alexander M.; Iniguez, Jose M.; Thode, Andrea; Meyer, Marc D.; Hedwall, Shaula J.; McCaffrey, Sarah; Shin, Patrick; Huang, Ching-Hsun. 2020. Effects of policy change on wildland fire management strategies: Evidence for a paradigm shift in the western US?. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(10): 857-877. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19189 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/61274
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