wildfires: Geo-referenced California wildfire records from 2011 through...
In wildviz: Compiles and Visualizes Wildfire, Climate, and Air Quality Data

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A dataframe containing Calfornia wildfire records at the county level. It is created from the Kaggle US wildfire records data by filtering on the date (2011- 2015), state (CA), and key cols and cleaning up the missing counties and reformatting the dates.

wildfires

A dataframe with 31579 rows and 11 variables:

FIRE_NAME: Name of the incident, from the fire report (primary) or ICS-209 report (secondary)
DISCOVER_DATE: Date on which the fire was discovered or confirmed to exist
CONT_DATE: Date on which the fire was declared contained or otherwise controlled
STAT_CAUSE_DESCR: Description of the (statistical) cause of the fire
FIRE_SIZE: Estimate of acres within the final perimeter of the fire
FIRE_SIZE_CLASS: Code for fire size based on the number of acres within the final fire perimeter expenditures (A=greater than 0 but less than or equal to 0.25 acres, B=0.26-9.9 acres, C=10.0-99.9 acres, D=100-299 acres, E=300 to 999 acres, F=1000 to 4999 acres, and G=5000+ acres)
LATITUDE: Latitude (NAD83) for point location of the fire (decimal degrees)
LONGITUDE: Longitude (NAD83) for point location of the fire (decimal degrees)
STATE: Two-letter alphabetic code for the state in which the fire burned
FIPS_CODE: Three-digit code from the FIPS publication 6-4 for counties
FIPS_NAME: County name from the FIPS publication 6-4 for counties