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Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7359-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7359-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Data description paper
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19 Dec 2025
Data description paper |  | 19 Dec 2025

The Western United States MTBS-Interagency database of large wildfires, 1984–2024 (WUMI2024a)

A. Park Williams, Caroline S. Juang, and Karen C. Short

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The Western United States MTBS-Interagency Database of Large Wildfires, 1984–2024 (WUMI2024a) represents more than 22000 large (≥1 km2) wildfires in the western United States from 1984 through 2024, including maps of fire perimeters and areas burned. It was compiled from seven government datasets and quality controlled. This dataset will aid research on the causes and effects of wildfire in a changing world.
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