APcoder/Historical_Fire_Perimeters_with_Factors

This work models california as a hexagonal grid using Uber's H3 Library. Data is sourced from various governmental sources and formatted into a GeoJSON format (sources included below).

The file full_california_static_features contains static features for all of California, useful for environmental modeling and simulation. Each cell has the factors:

• most_common_color - string (RGBA) - Due to the nature of available vegetation data, this feature takes the vegetation from the GeoJSON vegetation source included below by mapping each hexagonal cell to the most common vegetation in its boundaries. Rather than storing the biome names, it stores them to the colors of the key included in said source. This method still achieves the same categorical training for spatial models.
• most_common_color_hex - string - most_common_color in hex format
• nearest_location - string - nearest weather station with complete rain data from 1999
• contains_river - bool - whether the cell contains a river
• contains_lake - bool - whether the cell contains a lake
• contains_shoreline - bool - whether the cell contains shoreline
• contains_highway - bool - whether the cell contains a highway
• elevation - float - elevation of the cell in ft
• geometry - Polygon - the shape of the cell with coordinates corresponding to longitude and latitude.

The file california_wildfire_data contains every cell affected by wildfires since 2000. It is organized chronologically by fire, including the origin, burned, and surrounding (burned = 0) cells for each. It also contains the dynamic features like precipitation and past fires that effect wildfire behavior. They are organized by fires and cells are marked as burned (1) or unburned(0, these unburned cells form a perimeter around the fire). Each cell has factors:

• fire_name - string - name of the fire
• alarm_date - string - date of the fire in a pandas datetime format
• year - float - year of the fire
• distance - float - distance from origin
• incident_longitude - float - longitude of fire origin
• incident_latitude - float - latitude of fire origin
• burned - bool - whether the cell was burned
• past10 - int - number of fires in that cell over the past 10 years
• past5 - int - number of fires in that cell over the past 5 years
• rain1 - float - rain in the past 1 months
• rain3 - float - rain in the past 3 months
• rain6 - float - rain in the past 6 months
• rain12 - float - rain in the past 12 months
• origin - bool - whether the cell was the origin of the fire
• most_common_color - string (RGBA) - Due to the nature of available vegetation data, this feature takes the vegetation from the GeoJSON vegetation source included below by mapping each hexagonal cell to the most common vegetation in its boundaries. Rather than storing the biome names, it stores them to the colors of the key included in said source. This method still achieves the same categorical training for spatial models.
• most_common_color_hex - string - most_common_color in hex format
• nearest_location - string - nearest weather station with complete rain data from 1999
• contains_river - bool - whether the cell contains a river
• contains_lake - bool - whether the cell contains a lake
• contains_shoreline - bool - whether the cell contains shoreline
• contains_highway - bool - whether the cell contains a highway
• elevation - float - elevation of the cell in ft
• geometry - Polygon - the shape of the cell with coordinates corresponding to longitude and latitude.

Data Sources: “California Historical Fire Perimeters.” CNRA GIS Open Data, CALFIRE, gis.data.cnra.ca.gov/datasets/CALFIRE-Forestry::california-historical-fire-perimeters/explore?layer=0&location=36.802312%2C-120.402365%2C8.33. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “California Lakes - Dataset - California Natural Resources Agency Open Data.” California Lakes, California National Resources Agency, data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/california-lakes. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “California Vegetation - WHR13 Types.” Map Viewer, California State Geoportal, gis.data.ca.gov/maps/CALFIRE-Forestry::california-vegetation-whr13-types/about. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “Current Emergency Incidents.” Cal FIRE, CALFIRE, www.fire.ca.gov/incidents. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “National Elevation Data.” NED - Open Topo Data, www.opentopodata.org/datasets/ned/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “National Hydrography Data - NHD and 3DHP - Dataset - California Natural Resources Agency Open Data.” NHD Major Rivers Geopackage, California National Resources Agency, data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/national-hydrography-dataset-nhd. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. Shoreline Types - R7 - CDFW [Ds3115], California Open Data Portal, data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/shoreline-types-r7-cdfw-ds3115. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. “State Highway Network Lines.” California State Geoportal, gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/77f2d7ba94e040a78bfbe36feb6279da_0/explore?location=37.149664%2C-119.134653%2C6.23&showTable=true. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. US Department of Commerce, NOAA. “Climate.” National Weather Service, NOAA’s National Weather Service, www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=vef. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.