Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014] (6th Edition)

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_metadata_RDS-2013-0009.6.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2013-0009.6.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_variable_descriptions.csv \Data Comma-separated values (CSV) file containing a list and description of variables found in all data files.
FPA_FOD_20221014.accdb \Data Microsoft Access database containing a spatial database of 1992-2020 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurrence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, gpkg, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20221014.gdb \Data ESRI ArcGIS geodatabase containing a spatial database of 1992-2020 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 for ready use in ArcGIS. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurrence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, gpkg, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20221014.gpkg \Data OGC GeoPackage open source data format implemented as a SQLite database containing a spatial database of 1992-2020 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurrence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, gpkg, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_20221014.sqlite \Data SQLite (SpatiaLite format) open source database containing a spatial database of 1992-2020 wildfires in the United States. (FPA=Fire Program Analysis, FOD=Fire Occurrence Database). NOTE: this database is available in 4 different formats (accdb, gdb, gpkg, and sqlite), which are each a separate download.
FPA_FOD_source_list.pdf \Supplements Portable Document Format file containing a list of the sources of wildfire data in the FPA FOD. This is an updated version of Table 1 from "A Spatial Database of Wildfires in the United States, 1992-2011" (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-1-2014).
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