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 …
Questions this answers
3 · best fit firstThe public perimeter service supplies wildfire incident identity, discovery date, dated geometry, and update time.
Open spatial service supplies dated perimeter geometry, incident identity, discovery/containment, and perimeter-as-of time for retained records.
NIFC's public WFIGS ArcGIS layer publishes incident perimeter polygons with incident name/key fields, fire discovery, containment and control times, polygon/create/current dates, and supports point-in-polygon spatial queries. These fields pin incident and perimeter timing, but the citation does not define official-versus-indicative status semantics, source geometry lineage, retrieval time, or a stable geometry/product version.
Fields it delivers
4 fieldsNIFC’s authoritative item describes best-available perimeters for known wildland fires in the United States and warns that the ongoing dataset is incomplete, especially before 2021. No separately coded U.S. territory coverage is asserted.
The agency or publisher provides this source through a directly accessible public API/service endpoint with no checkout, subscription, API key purchase, or stated access fee on the cited page or endpoint. The standing route is therefore free, even though the retired review did not resolve reuse rights.
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