Published May 18, 2026 | Version 2026.2
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FireBench: 2021 Caldor Benchmarks for Fire Models

  • 1. ROR icon San Jose State University

Contributors

  • 1. San Jose State University
  • 2. ROR icon Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Description

This collection of benchmarks uses the public resources about the 2021 Caldor Fire.
It contains a script based on the FireBench Python library to run over 300 benchmarks related to building damage, burn severity, canopy cover loss, fire perimeters, and weather stations. 

It contains observation datasets for:
- Building damaged (CALFIRE)
- Burn severity (MTBS)
- Burn severity (RAVG)
- Canopy bottom height (LANDFIRE)
- Canopy bulk density (LANDFIRE)
- Canopy cover loss (RAVG)
- Canopy height (LANDFIRE)
- Infrared fire perimeters (NIROPS)
- Live basal area change (RAVG)
- Weather stations (Synoptic)

See FireBench documentation for more information about this dataset and how to run benchmarks with it.

Licenses for each dataset are contained within the distributed dataset.

Files

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Additional details

Related works

Requires
Software: 10.5281/zenodo.15477459 (DOI)

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation
IUCRC Phase I, San Jose State University: Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) 2113931

Dates

Created
2026-01-14
Creation date
Updated
2026-03-15
Version 2026.1
Updated
2026-05-18
Version 2026.2

Software

Development Status
Active