Files · fire-perimeters
Fire perimeters (US), current and archived
Current US interagency wildland fire perimeters as GeoJSON, plus an archive of every perimeter shape and every snapshot of the current layer since this dataset started, so a fire's growth can be followed after WFIGS drops it. From the NIFC WFIGS current interagency perimeters service.
- Updates
- Hourly
- Coverage
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- Current version
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- Last published
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- Validation
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- License
- US Government work
- Commercial use
- Allowed
Files
The files of the current version, served from the API.
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Use the API
Fetch the metadata for the list of files, then any file by its path. See the docs for versions, caching and errors.
curl
# The current version and its files
curl -s "https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/fire-perimeters"Python (polars)
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen
meta = json.load(urlopen("https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/fire-perimeters"))
for f in meta["downloads"]:
print(f["name"], f["bytes"], f["url"])JavaScript
const meta = await (await fetch("https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/fire-perimeters")).json();
console.log(meta.version, meta.downloads);Schema
This dataset publishes files without a fixed column schema.
Source and license
- Source
- NIFC WFIGS Current Interagency Fire Perimeters
- Publisher
- National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
- License
- US Government work (public domain in the United States) (
LicenseRef-US-Government-Work) - Commercial use
- Allowed
Credit the source with this exact text:
National Interagency Fire Center, Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS). Credits: US Department of Interior Office of Wildland Fire: IRWIN, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Land Management, National Association of State Foresters, US Fire Administration, National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Checked every 3 hours. If the source hasn't changed in 2 days, the status page flags it as stale.
Endpoints
Every URL for this dataset. To pin the current version, put it after the id:
/v1/fire-perimeters@<version>.
The API reference describes each response.
| What | URL |
|---|---|
| Metadata: version, coverage, downloads, validation | /v1/fire-perimeters |
| Versions and monthly snapshots | /v1/fire-perimeters/versions |
| One file, at the path listed in the metadata | /v1/fire-perimeters/{path} |