Table 1.
Available fire disturbance data for Canada.
| Dataset | Spatial Extent | Temporal Extent | Data Type | Avail-ability | Hyperlink/Citation/Contact page | Date Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Datasets (Spatial) | ||||||
| Alberta | Provincial | 1931–2022 | Vector | Public | https://www.alberta.ca/wildfire-maps-and-data | October 2023 |
| British Columbia | Provincial | 1917–2022 | Vector | Public | https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fire-perimeters-historical | October 2023 |
| Manitoba | Provincial | 1928–2020 | Vector | Public | https://mli.gov.mb.ca/forestry/index.html | October 2023 |
| Ontario | Provincial | 1960–2022 | Vector | Public | https://geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/datasets/lio::fire-disturbance-area/about | October 2023 |
| Quebec | Provincial | 1887–2022 | Vector | Public | https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/feux-de-foret | October 2023 |
| Northwest Territories | Provincial | 1950–2021 | Vector | Via request | https://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/en/contact-us | September 2023 |
| Nova Scotia | Provincial | 1951–2023 | Vector | Via request/license | https://geonova.novascotia.ca/home | September 2023 |
| Yukon | Provincial | 1946–2022 | Vector | Public | https://yukon.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f9588f95c62e4bf69ef02145d91c92ab | October 2023 |
| National Dataset | National | Varies Spatially | Vector | Public | https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart | October 2023 |
| NFIS Fire | Canada | 1985–2020 | Raster | Public | https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nfis-change_eng.html | December 2023 |
| Fire Datasets (Aspatial) | ||||||
| Van Wagner 1988 | Aspatial | 1918–1986 | Aspatial | Public | 44 | |
| Skakun et al.58 | Aspatial (raw data is spatial) | 1950–2018 | Aspatial | Public | 58 | |