The LakeCat Dataset: Accumulated Attributes for NHDPlusV2 (Version 2.1) Catchments for the Conterminous United States: Wildfire Burn Severity Class 1984-2018 (MTBS)

Published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA), Pacific Ecological Systems Division (PESD), | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: July 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2023-11-13

This dataset represents percent area burned in each burn severity class for wildfires within individual local and accumulated upstream catchments for NHDPlusV2 Waterbodies for each year for 1984-2018.The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity MTBS project assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (includes wildfire, wildland fire use, and prescribed fire) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico from the beginning of the Landsat Thematic Mapper archive to the present. See: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity-burned-area-boundaries-feature-layer-27201 and https://www.mtbs.gov/product-descriptions

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identifier	7ffbc84f-8903-4aca-a9d4-f04e2e801595
issued	2015-04-23
landingPage	https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/lakecat-dataset
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programCode	[ "020:072" ]
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rights	public (Data asset is or could be made publicly available to all without restrictions)
spatial	-125.0,24.5,-66.5,49.5
temporal	2015/2030
theme	[ "environment" ]

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