Wildfires in California and the greater Pacific Northwest, has immense financial, environmental, and health impacts at both the individual and societal level. As a team, we are interested in growing our awareness and understanding of wildfires by exploring the factors that may contribute to the phenomena in order to contribute to mitigation strategies. Our initial inquiry will be to analyze wildfires by ignition source to identify what mitigation strategies are possible, then to search for correlations between fire season and precipitation to explore the potential on how precipitatio and other weather data can inform future research into creating predictive models for wildfires.
CALFIRE:
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/california-fire-perimeters-1950
https://gis.data.cnra.ca.gov/datasets/CALFIRE-Forestry::california-fire-perimeters-1950/explore?location=37.569332%2C-122.356309%2C12.00&showTable=true
NOAA NCEI: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 32. FIPS:06 PRCP (2012)
NOAA National Climatic Data Center. doi:10.7289/V5D21VHZ [2024-07]
Menne, Matthew J., Imke Durre, Bryant Korzeniewski, Shelley McNeill, Kristy Thomas, Xungang Yin, Steven Anthony, Ron Ray, Russell S. Vose, Byron E.Gleason, and Tamara G. Houston
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2#data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/GHCND_documentation.pdf
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt
NASA FIRMS: NRT VIIRS 375m Active Fire product VNP14IMGT
NASA FIRMS. doi:10.5067/FIRMS/VIIRS/VNP14IMGT_NRT.002 [2024-7]
Available on-line https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/content/academy/data_api/firms_api_use.html
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/s3fs-public/2024-07/VIIRS_C2_AF-375m_User_Guide_1.0.pdf
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/near-real-time/firms/vnp14imgtdlnrt#ed-viirs-375m-attributes
NASA GESDISC: GPM IMERG Final Precipitation L3 1 month 0.1 degree x 0.1 degree V07 (2023)
Greenbelt, MD, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), doi:10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-MONTH/07 [2024-07]
Huffman, G.J., E.F. Stocker, D.T. Bolvin, E.J. Nelkin, Jackson Tan
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/GPM_3IMERGM_07/summary
US State Boundaries as geojson polygon
https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/us-state-boundaries/export/