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- Prescribed Burns (rxburn18_1)
Prescribed Burns (rxburn18_1)
- Description:
The "rxburn" data layer contains perimeters from multiple agencies of various prescribed burns, with associated tabular data for responsible agency, contract number, project name, start date, and acres reported. Data provided are merged from sources of varying quality. There has been a significant amount of work to resolve duplicate prescribed fires (from different sources). This layer is in the early stages of development and does not include complete data for all agencies. Two of the attributes in this dataset, PRE_CON_CLASS and POST_CON_CLASS are based on an abstract concept called "Condition Class." There is more information about "Condition Class" in the Overview Description / Entity and Attribute Overview section. Those two attributes were not collected consistantly.
- Data Provided By:
- CAL FIRE
- Content date:
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00 - 2017-12-31T00:00:00
- Citation:
- DISCLAIMER The State of California and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. The user will not seek to hold the State or the Department liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. The user will cite the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as the original source of the data, but will clearly denote cases where the original data have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition.
- Contact Organization:
- California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Fire & Resource Assessment Program
- Contact Person(s):
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- Dave Passovoy
- Dave Sapsis
- Use Constraints:
- This is the most complete digital record of prescribed fire history in California. However it is still incomplete in many respects. Fires may be missing altogether or have missing or incorrect attribute data. Some burns may be missing because historical records were lost or damaged, were too small for the minimum cutoffs, had inadequate documentation or have not yet been incorporated into the database. Other errors with the fire perimeter database include duplicate fires and over-generalization. While the data capture process attempts to identify duplicate fires resulting from multiple data sources (i.e. the USFS and CAL FIRE both captured and submitted the fire perimeter), some duplicates may still exist. Additionally, over-generalization, particularly with large old fires may show unburned "islands" within the final perimeter as burned. Users of the fire perimeter database must exercise caution in application of the data. Careful use of the fire perimeter database will prevent users from drawing inaccurate or erroneous conclusions from the data.
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