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Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2249-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2249-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
Data description article
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02 Jun 2025
Data description article |  | 02 Jun 2025

Distribution and characteristics of lightning-ignited wildfires in boreal forests – the BoLtFire database

Brittany Engle, Ivan Bratoev, Morgan A. Crowley, Yanan Zhu, and Cornelius Senf

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The pan-boreal lightning-ignited wildfire (BoLtFire) dataset spans the entire boreal forest from 2012 to 2022, focusing on fires of at least 200 ha. Developed using a new methodology to match lightning to wildfires in the boreal region, it includes 6902 fires – 4201 in Eurasia and 2701 in North America. BoLtFire provides new opportunities to model the ignition and spread dynamics of boreal wildfires and offers deeper insights into lightning-driven fire activity globally.
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