Acquire current wildfire perimeters

Retrieves current wildfire perimeter data from the NIFC (National Interagency Fire Center) via the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) API.

Usage

get_current_fire_perimeters(
  geography = NULL,
  file_path = NULL,
  bbox = NULL,
  api = TRUE
)

Arguments

geography

Included only for API consistency; this must be NULL.

file_path

Included only for API consistency; this must be NULL.

bbox

Optionally, an sf::st_bbox() object, or an object that can be converted to such.

api

Included only for API consistency; this must be TRUE.

Value

An sf dataframe comprising perimeters of current wildfires. Columns include:

unique_id

Unique identifier for each observation (generated).

incident_name

Name of the fire incident (title case).

incident_size_acres

Size of the fire in acres.

incident_short_description

Brief description of the incident.

percent_contained

Percent of fire contained (0-100).

identified_date

Date/time the fire was discovered.

updated_date

Date/time the record was last updated.

geometry

Polygon geometry of the fire perimeter.

Details

Data are from the NIFC WFIGS service. See https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nifc::wfigs-interagency-fire-perimeters/about.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_current_fire_perimeters()
} # }