Published February 27, 2025 | Version v3
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Distribution and Characteristics of Lightning-Ignited Wildfires in Boreal Forests - the BoLtFire database

  • 1. ROR icon Technical University of Munich
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada
  • 3. ROR icon Earth Networks (United States)

Description

This repository holds a dataset of lightning-ignited wildfires across the boreal biome. The BoLtFire dataset covers the period 2012 to 2022 and encompasses 6,902 fires - 4,201 in Eurasia and 2,701 in North America.

The layers included in this dataset are: FireID, StartDate, EndDate, FireYdear, AreaHa (burned area), ClassSize, BiomeName, EcoBiome, EcoName, EcoID, Realm, LCDN (Land cover number), LCName (land cover name), Country, Continent, HoldoverD (days), HoldoverRD (holdover rounded), IgnLat (Ignition location Latitude), IgnLong (Ignition Location Longitude), DisPol (Distance of the ignition location to the fire perimeter if it is located outside the polygon), and PerCheck (designates if the ignition location is within the fire perimeter or oustide the perimeter).

 

The datasets are available per continent (North America, Europe, and Asia) as shapefiles. The spatial reference system is Global LANd Cover mapping and Estimation (GLANCE) Grids - Version 01 CRS.

 

*Please note: Versions 1 and 2 are missing LIW from Canada between 2021-2022. 

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Dates

Created
2024-10-10

Software

Programming language
Python