Non-Federal Fire Ignitions

Fire history statistics provide insight as to the number of fires, acres burned and cause of fires in Colorado. These statistics are useful for prevention and mitigation planning. They can be used to quantify the level of fire business, determine the time of year most fires typically occur and develop a fire prevention campaign aimed at reducing a specific fire cause.

Non-federally reported fire ignition locations for Colorado were compiled for 2009 to 2017. All ignitions data sources were updated to remove duplicate records and correct inaccurate locations. The original source of the data is reported by local fire departments through the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). It is the system used by structural (regular) fire departments for collecting all kinds of fires. Wildland fires are just a portion of them. It is administered nationally by FEMA. Reference info https://www.nfirs.fema.gov/. Annually, the Colorado Division of Fire Control & Prevention sends data to CSFS of the wildland fires that are reported within NFIRS. CSFS then formats and submits that data through the National Association of State Foresters to the USDA-Forest Service Data Warehouse, Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications (FAMWEB) site where it is hosted for all the federal, state, and local wildland fire management agencies. The reference site is https://www.frames.gov/catalog/8127