Iowa State University DS 201 Final Data Project
Data File: California WildFires (2013-2020)
Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ananthu017/california-wildfire-incidents-20132020
About this file
Context: California is one of the places having the most deadliest and destructive wildfire seasons. The dataset contains the list of Wildfires that has occurred in California between 2013 and 2020. The dataset contains the location where wildfires have occurred including the County name, latitude and longitude values and also details on when the wildfire has started.
This data helps to generate insights on what locations in California are under fire threat, what time do Wildfires usually occur and how frequent and devastating they are.
Dataset Column Descriptions:
AcresBurned - Acres of land affected by wildfires
Active - If the fire is active or contained?
AdminUnit
AirTankers - Resources assigned
ArchiveYear - Year the data was archived
CalFireIncident - Is the incident treated as a CalFire incident?
CanonicalUrl
ConditionStatement
ControlStatement
Counties - County name
CountyIds - County id
CrewsInvolved
Dozers - Resources assigned
Engines - Resources assigned
Extinguished - Extinguished date
Fatalities - Fatality count
Featured
Final
FuelType
Helicopters - Resources assigned
Injuries - Count of injured personnel
Latitude - Latitude of the Wildfire incident
Location - Description of the Location
Longitude - Longitude of the Wildfire incident
MajorIncident - If it is considered a major incident or not?
Name - Name of the Wildfire
PercentContained - What percent of the fire is contained?
PersonnelInvolved
Public
SearchDescription
SearchKeywords
Started - Fire start date
Status - Status of the fire
StructuresDamaged - Count of structures damaged
StructuresDestroyed - Count of structures destroyed
StructuresEvacuated
StructuresThreatened - Count of structures threatened
UniqueId
Updated - Last update date
Resources assigned