Table 1 Available fire disturbance data for Canada.
From: High-resolution Canada domain disturbance forcings suitable for land surface modeling applications
Dataset | Spatial Extent | Temporal Extent | Data Type | Avail-ability | Hyperlink/Citation/Contact page | Date Accessed |
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Fire Datasets (Spatial) | ||||||
Alberta | Provincial | 1931–2022 | Vector | Public | October 2023 | |
British Columbia | Provincial | 1917–2022 | Vector | Public | https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fire-perimeters-historical | October 2023 |
Manitoba | Provincial | 1928–2020 | Vector | Public | October 2023 | |
Ontario | Provincial | 1960–2022 | Vector | Public | https://geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/lio::fire-disturbance-area/about | October 2023 |
Quebec | Provincial | 1887–2022 | Vector | Public | https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/feux-de-foret | October 2023 |
Northwest Territories | Provincial | 1950–2021 | Vector | Via request | September 2023 | |
Nova Scotia | Provincial | 1951–2023 | Vector | Via request/license | September 2023 | |
Yukon | Provincial | 1946–2022 | Vector | Public | https://yukon.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f9588f95c62e4bf69ef02145d91c92ab | October 2023 |
National Dataset | National | Varies Spatially | Vector | Public | October 2023 | |
NFIS Fire | Canada | 1985–2020 | Raster | Public | December 2023 | |
Fire Datasets (Aspatial) | ||||||
Van Wagner 1988 | Aspatial | 1918–1986 | Aspatial | Public | ||
Skakun et al.58 | Aspatial (raw data is spatial) | 1950–2018 | Aspatial | Public |