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Western US Wildfire Burn Severity, 2016-2020

MTBS Burn Severity
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps where wildfires burned across the Western United States from 2016 to 2020 and how severely each area was scorched, from lightly singed to completely burned.

How it's made. Produced by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program, which compares before-and-after satellite imagery of each fire.

How & where you'd use it. Guides post-fire recovery, erosion control, and long-term study of how landscapes burn and regrow.

What's measured

mtbsburnseverity

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-01-01 → 2020-12-31
  • Spatial extent-127.162, 23.821, -71.135, 49.089
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Burn severities and extents of fires from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program during the years 2016-2020 over Western US

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("mtbs-burn-severity")
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).