Analysis of Wildfire incidents from 2011 to 2015 in the US

Abstract

This SQLite dataset includes Wildfires incident reports filed by various federal, state, and local fire organizations from period 2011 to 2015 obtained from Kaggle - 1.88 Million US Wildfires

Methods used

Tools	Methodologies
Packages	ggplot2, dplyr, readr, lubridate,tidygeocoder, forcats
Tools	relational data/joins, ggplot, data import, dates and times, geospatial vizualization, factors

Data Description

The cleaned data set consists of 188,017 observations on the following 17 variables.

Column name	Description
fire_year	Calendar year in which the fire was discovered or confirmed to exist.
discovery_date	Date on which the fire was discovered or confirmed to exist.
discovery_time	Time of the day that the fire was discovered or confirmed to exist.
stat_cause_descr	Description of the (statistical) cause of the fire
fire_size	Estimate of Acres of land burnt 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)
owner_descr	Name of primary owner or entity responsible for managing the land at the point of origin of the fire at the time of the incident
cont_date	Date on which the fire was declared contained or otherwise controlled (mm/dd/yyyy where mm=month, dd=day, and yyyy=year)
cont_time	Time of day that the fire was declared contained or otherwise controlled (hhmm where hh=hour, mm=minutes)
county	County, or equivalent, in which the fire burned (or originated), based on nominal designation in the fire report
state_abb	Two-letter code for the state in which the unit is located (or primarily affiliated)
disc_month	Month of the year
resolved_days	#Days taken to resolve the wildfire
season	Season of the year - Summer, Spring, Fall, Winter
state_name	Full name of the state