GIS Resources

Fire Data

Alberta

• Alberta Wildfire Resources - 1931 - present (includes fire weather data)
• Impact and Swipe Map of the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire - From ESRI, satellite imagery taken before and after the Fort McMurray wildfire in May 2016

British Columbia

• Fire Datasets - From the BC Wildfire Service (includes active and historical data)

Canada

• Forest Fire Data Tables - From the National Forestry Database
• Canadian Wildland Fire Information System - Daily fire weather and fire behaviour maps year-round and hot spot maps throughout the forest fire season, generally between May and September.

International

• FIRMS - Active Fire Data - From NASA: Download active fire products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) for the last 24, 48 hours and 7 days in shapefile, KML, WMS or text file formats.
• FIRMS - Historical Fire Information for Resource Management System - From NASA: Download fire / hotspot information older than the last 7 days as: shapefiles (.shp), comma-separated text files (.csv) or JSON files (.json)
• Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) - The Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional and national level in order to provide a comprehensive view and evaluation of fire regimes and fire effects at global level and to provide tools to support operational wildfire management from national to global scales.