Description: The National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Wildland Fire Event Point data standard defines the minimum attributes necessary for collection, storage and dissemination of incident based data on wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires). The standard is not intended for long term data storage, rather a standard to assist in the creation of incident based data management tools, minimum standards for data exchange, and to assist users in meeting GIS Standard Operating Procedures on Incidents (GSTOP) guidance.
This feature class will use a specific symbol set. The symbol set is defined by the GIS Standard Operating Procedures for Incidents (GSTOP). For additional information follow this link: http://gis.nwcg.gov/gstop_about.html
This feature class will be part of a Incident Geodatabase that will contain Fire Point, Fire Line, and Fire Polygon feature classes.
This standard is for incident based data collection, storage and exchange. The intent of this standard is to update existing data formats and provide a common set of attributes for use on wildland fires starting fire season 2016.
This standard should not be confused with the NWCG geospatial data standard for Wildland Fire Location Point, which is for the representation of the final spatial location of the fire occurrence ignition.