WildfireDB: An Open-Source Dataset Connecting Wildfire Occurrence with Relevant DeterminantsDownload PDF

Published: 11 Oct 2021, Last Modified: 23 May 2023NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)Readers: Everyone
Keywords: wildfire, open-source data, data-driven modeling, disaster management, emergency response
Abstract: Modeling fire spread is critical in fire risk management. Creating data-driven models to forecast spread remains challenging due to the lack of comprehensive data sources that relate fires with relevant covariates. We present the first comprehensive and open-source dataset that relates historical fire data with relevant covariates such as weather, vegetation, and topography. Our dataset, named WildfireDB, contains over 17 million data points that capture how fires spread in continental USA in the last decade. In this paper, we describe the algorithmic approach used to process and integrate the data, describe the dataset, and present benchmark results regarding data-driven models that can be learned to forecast the spread of wildfires.
TL;DR: An open-source dataset that links wildfire occurences with relevant covariates
URL: https://wildfire-modeling.github.io/
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