Description
Dataset including information on wildfires in the province of Alberta from 2006 to 2024, inclusive. Information tracked for each fire includes: cause, size, location (latitude and longitude, legal land description, and forest area), time and duration, weather conditions, staffing and physical resources used to suppress the fire, and area burned.
Updated
January 31, 2025
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Date Modified
2025-01-31
Update Frequency
Irregular
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Forestry and Parks
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Resource Dates
Date Created
2020-01-09
Date Added to catalogue
2022-11-22T20:39:16.488325
Date Issued
2020-01-09
Date Modified
2025-01-31
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Usage Considerations
By definition, wildfires have a point of origin inside the Forest Protection Area – either provincial lands or federal lands covered by agreement with the province. Fires having a point of origin outside the FPA are referred to as Mutual Aid fires are not included in this dataset.
The Alberta Forest Service initiated the modern era of wildfire recordkeeping in 1931, the first complete fire season under provincial jurisdiction. Over the years, this information has been recorded, stored and made available in different formats. Starting in 1996, paper records were no longer being retained and wildfire history data have been entered at the field level on the Fire Information Resource Evaluation System (FIRES). A client-server architecture employed over a wide area network allows users to maintain a central database.