Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2012 [FPA_FOD_20140428]

Research Data Publication File Index

File	Folder	Description
_metadata_RDS-2013-0009.2.html		Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2013-0009.2.xml		Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
FPA_FOD_20140428.accdb	\Data	Microsoft Access database containing a spatial database of 1992-2012 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, pgd, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20140428.gdb	\Data	ESRI ArcGIS geodatabase containing a spatial database of 1992-2012 wildfires in the United States. This geodatabase includes 2 feature classes: Fires and NWCG_UnitIDActive which is the same tabular data found in the Access database above, but also includes the point locations of the wildfires. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, pgd, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20140428.pgd	\Data	PostgreSQL open source database containing a spatial database of 1992-2012 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, pgd, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20140428.sqlite	\Data	SQLite open source database containing a spatial database of 1992-2012 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, pgd, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_source_list.pdf	\Supplements	Adobe Acrobat PDF/a document containing a list of the sources of wildfire data in the FPA FOD. This information is also available in Table 1 from "A Spatial Database of Wildfires in the United States, 1992-2011" (https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/45689 ).