Fireline engagement from the National Interagency Fire Center Feature Service from 2017-2024

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) US Department of Agriculture; US Forest Service

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Project Citation: 

US Department of Agriculture, and US Forest Service. Fireline engagement from the National Interagency Fire Center Feature Service from 2017-2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-05-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E248762V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Fireline engagement from the National Interagency Fire Center Feature Service from 2017-2024
Summary:  View help for Summary The escalation of wildfires in the USA, coupled with rising firefighting costs and decreasing workforce capacity, underscores the critical need to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of containment measures. However, the existing spatial data that records the locations and types of containment measures and wildfire perimeters contains numerous errors and redundancies. This data publication includes a comprehensive fireline quality assurance and quality control dataset developed from the wildland firefighting operations data reported in the National Interagency Fire Center National Incident Feature Service (NIFC) from 2017-2024. This improved dataset contains reliable spatial locations for fireline built during suppression operations, the associated verified fire perimeters, and identifies where containment was a success or failure. This improved final dataset represents critical information that has not been previously available to assess the success of fireline operations and incident management resource use efficiency.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2025-0011

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms environment; Environment and People; Impact of people on environment; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Fire suppression; pre-suppression; Wildland/urban interface; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; Landscape management; fireline data; wildfire incidents; NIFC; fire containment; fire containment status; firefighting; operational fireline data; fire suppression effectiveness; fireline engagement; fireline attribution QAQC; suppression outcome evaluation; tactical fireline decisions; resource objective wildfire; wildfire management; United States
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2017 – 2024
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2025-0011 Authors: Arkowitz, Alexander P. ; Ritter, Scott M. ; Thompson, Matthew P. ; Young, Jesse D. ; Pietruszka, Bradley M. ; Calkin, David E. Publication year: 2025 (Downloaded 2026-05-30)


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