Data field · Event

Wildfire ignition date

The observed, reported, measured, or estimated wildfire ignition date for an event, on the basis and date stated by the source.

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Sources that carry it

1 source

National Interagency Fire Center (NIF…

NIFC WFIGS Interagency Perimeters API

Free governmental ArcGIS REST feature service publishing NIFC WFIGS wildfire incident perimeter polygons with incident name, fire discovery date, containment date, and perimeter-as-of date. Supports spatial queries for point-in-polygon intersection and attribute-based filtering. Full dataset available as open bulk download.

Free APIFull file National US 4 fields

Questions it helps answer

Documented fire occurrence Historical wildfire perimeter intersections Wildfire perimeter at the event time

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