Description: This point feature layer contains historic wildland fire locations from 1980 through the prior calendar year and is updated on an annual basis at the end of each calendar year. To view the current year's wildland fire locations that are updated in near real time, please visit: <a href="https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nifc::wfigs-2023-wildland-fire-locations-to-date/explore?location=-0.000000%2C0.000000%2C2.64" target="_blank">WFIGS - 2023 Wildland Fire Locations to Date</a><br /><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><u>Wildfires that occurred between calendar years 1980 - 1991</u>, are sourced from the BLM Wildland Fire Management Information (WFMI) system. This system no longer exists and was replaced by </span><a href="https://in-form-nifc.hub.arcgis.com/" target="_blank">InFORM</a><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;">.</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><u>Wildfires that occurred between the calendar years 1992-2013</u> are sourced from the dataset provided by Research Ecologist, </span><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Catalog/RDS-2013-0009.5" target="_blank">Karen Short</a><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><u>Wildfires that occurred between calendar years 2014 - 2019</u>, are sourced from the </span><a href="https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/WFIT/applications/IRWIN/index.shtml" target="_blank">Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN)</a><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;"><u>Wildfires that occurred from 2020 to present</u>, are sourced from the Fire Occurrence Data Record (FODR) which comes from </span><a href="https://in-form-nifc.hub.arcgis.com/" target="_blank">InFORM</a><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px;">.</span></div></div>