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2021 Caldor Fire: How the Fire Spread (California)

Caldor Fire Behavior
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Traces the day-by-day progression and active burning of California's 2021 Caldor Fire, and includes a layer showing how badly the soil itself was scorched.

How it's made. Built from a published fire-tracking algorithm, with the soil burn-severity layer supplied by the U.S. Burned Area Emergency Response team.

How & where you'd use it. Lets responders follow how the fire advanced and find areas where burned soil raises flood and erosion risk afterward.

What's measured

caldorfirebehavior

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2021-08-15 → 2021-10-21
  • Spatial extent-120.613, 38.549, -119.919, 38.906
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

`.geojson` and `tif` files describing the progression and active fire behavior of the 2021 Caldor Fire in California via the algorithm detailed in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01343-0. This includes an extra `.tif` file detailing the soil burn severity (SBS) conditions provided by the [Burned Area Emergency Response](https://burnseverity.cr.usgs.gov/baer/) team.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("caldor-fire-behavior")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).