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

Fire Datasets (Spatial)

Alberta

Provincial

1931–2022

Vector

Public

https://www.alberta.ca/wildfire-maps-and-data

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

https://mli.gov.mb.ca/forestry/index.html

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

https://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/en/contact-us

September 2023

Nova Scotia

Provincial

1951–2023

Vector

Via request/license

https://geonova.novascotia.ca/home

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

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart

October 2023

NFIS Fire

Canada

1985–2020

Raster

Public

https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nfis-change_eng.html

December 2023

Fire Datasets (Aspatial)

Van Wagner 1988

Aspatial

1918–1986

Aspatial

Public

44

 

Skakun et al.58

Aspatial (raw data is spatial)

1950–2018

Aspatial

Public

58