Fire Disturbance PT Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: The Ministry of Natural Resources Fire Program records details about specific forest fires. This dataset contains the estimated starting point of a forest fire for which the perimeter was not mapped and for the fires that are less than 40 hectares in size. The fires represented in this LIO only data class are inside or outside the fire region and do not include prescribed burns. Supplementary look-up table descriptions are available in the data description document, which is available for download from the additional documentation section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-06-12

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  fdc1c86a-56e0-4fd6-9980-c629b7347bd3

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  Fire, Forest Fires, FOREST FIRES PREVENTION ACT, FOREST DAMAGE

  FIRE PREVENTION

  Fire, Incendie, Forest fires, Incendie de forêt

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  Mainly used by the OMNR Fire Program for recording details about specific forest fires. The information that is collected is used for numerous operational and program management activities within the fire program, and for forest management and land-use planning activities. It is also an ad-hoc Forest Information Manual deliverable to Sustainable Forest License (SFL) holders each September through the FI Portal. The SFL stakeholders feel that the 40 hectares and above benchmark set for the Fire Disturbance Area (mapped perimeters) is too high. The SFL ground truth the estimated starting point of the fire, and collect additional information about the actual perimeter for the annual reporting of forest depletions (timber volume loss etc...).

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: annually

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  LIO Warehouse Data Class; LIO Data Class

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.149500

  East Longitude: -76.339200

  North Latitude: 56.101700

  South Latitude: 42.260000

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Legislated or Legal Authority for Collection: Ad-hoc Forest Information Manual annual report information requested by Sustainable Forest License holders to supplement fire disturbance perimeters (see fire disturbance area data class). Additional Time Period Information: Majority of fires occur during the fire season April 1 to October 31 st Data is collected on an on-going basis therefore the time period 'end date' may be more recent than indicated above. Starting in 2005 as a result of the new Fire Management Strategy fires which were previously classified as OFR in the Far North of the Province (north of 54 degrees latitude) are reclassified as IFR Starting in 2005 as a result of the new Fire Management Strategy fire response objectives have changed: OBJECTIVE CODES 1989 TO 2004 SUP SUPPRESSION - denotes a dedicated attempt to control the fire. PRO PROTECTION - denotes an attempt to limit the spread of the fire in certain locations to protect values. MON MONITOR - denotes a fire on which no action was taken except for observations. Monitor also includes Prescribed Burns. OBJECTIVE CODES 2005 MOD MODIFIED - A Wildfire that is managed using a combination of suppression techniques, including direct and indirect attack as well as monitoring to steer, contain or otherwise manage fire activity within a pre-determined perimeter such that costs and/or damage are minimized, and/or benefits from the fire are maximized. MON MONITORED - A wildfire that is observed and assessed to determine the response option required to minimize social disruption and/or significant value and resource impacts while achieving beneficial ecological, economic or resource management objectives FUL FULL- A wildfire which requires immediate, aggressive initial attack and/or sustained suppression action until the fire is declared out MDP MODIFIED UNDER PRESCRIPTION - Initial attack using response options and suppression tactics to steer or contain the fire to minimize costs and damage and maximize any beneficial effects that may be associated with a fire in accordance with an approved burning prescription MNP MONITORED UNDER PRESCRIPTION - Observation and assessment of a fire to determine the need for full and/or modified response to minimize costs damage and social disruption while maximizing any beneficial effects associated with a fire in accordance with an approved burning prescription.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: point

  Object Count: 9432

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Fire Archive Database (MsAccess): Spatial locations and attribute information was generated from coordinates stored in a fire archive database Information is archived on an annual basis Data collected from 01/01/1960 to 31/12/2003. The Access database is generated annually from an extract of the Daily Fire Operations Support System Oracle Database. The database contains data which reflects information found on a FORM 208 fire reports.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE), Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

• Related Links

  • Forest Fire Management Strategy for Ontario (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)