Ben Lockwood, PhD 🌎benlockwood@ecoevo.social
Oct 14, 2026, 5:07 PMReplies
Sarasarae@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:47 PM@benlockwood is InciWeb not doing it for you?
- Ben Lockwood, PhD 🌎benlockwood@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:53 PM
@sarae I think that just shows active incidents, correct? I'm looking for historical data with categorization beyond size
- Sarasarae@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 10:07 PM
@benlockwood I'm not sure that exists
existing regional data sets I'm familiar with don't go back particularly far and tend to only show the geographic extent
can you help me better understand the question you're looking to address?
- Sarasarae@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 10:08 PM
@benlockwood at least in the PNW there's limited historical fires data and pre-GIS it's patchy at best
- Ben Lockwood, PhD 🌎benlockwood@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 10:10 PM
@sarae “historical” as in like, the past decade or so. Really just looking for something that would tell me how many wildfires of type x,y,z in the past ten years. I assumed there was a severity categorization similar to hurricanes and other natural hazards but maybe not
- Sarasarae@ecoevo.socialOct 14, 2026, 10:34 PM
@benlockwood based on my current understanding of data in the PNW, I think that if what's in InciWeb won't work for you, you would need to go state by state
probably also some data sets with interagency fire consortiums and USFS research centers but many of those have lost staff or are in transition rn