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Lightning Caused Fires and Acres

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of the Interior
Sub-Agency	Bureau of Land Management
Category	Natural Resources
Date Released	01-Jan-2000
Date Updated	01-Jan-2009
Time Period	2001 - 2008
Frequency	Daily
Description	Number of wildland fires and acres burned as a result of lightning, from 2001 through 2008 (updated annually). Displayed by the eleven Geographic Areas used by the interagency wildland fire community for wildland fire resource ordering and dispatching. Includes federal (Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs) and state/local jurisdictions. This information is supplied by the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Administrative
Keywords	wildland, fires, wildland fires, acres, acres burned, human causes, Geographic Areas
Unique ID	1185

Contributing Agency Information

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Agency Program Page	http://www.nifc.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.nifc.gov

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Acres and number of fire incidents
Granularity	Geographic Area Coordination Center
Geographic Coverage	National

Data Description

Collection Mode	phone, paper, computer, fax
Data Collection Instrument	Manual
Data Dictionary/Variable List	Left Intentionally blank

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Additional Metadata	This information is supplied by the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture

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