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EPA-annual-emissions_5_Forest_Fires·dataset

U.S. Methane From Forest Fires (Yearly Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Forest Fires
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map of how much methane, a potent greenhouse gas, was released by forest fires across the United States over a year. The values come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 emissions inventory.

How it's made. Built by the EPA by tallying methane emissions from forest fires and spreading the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists and policymakers see where wildfire methane comes from and track it as part of national climate accounting.

What's measured

EPAannualemissionsForestFires

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31
  • Spatial extent-130, 20, -60, 55
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Emissions from sector 5 from forest fires.

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("EPA-annual-emissions_5_Forest_Fires")
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).