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Restricted Fire Zone
## Get data on areas where outdoor fires are not permitted. This dataset shows areas where outdoor fires are restricted in accordance with the [Forest Fires Prevention Act](https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90f24). There are two reasons why a restricted fire zone is in effect: * outdoor conditions are extremely dry * the number of fires occurring has stretched firefighting resources to capacity A restricted fire zone is a temporary measure for extreme situations and is lifted as soon as conditions permit. The [Forest Fire Info Map](https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM) shows active fires, current fire danger and restricted fire zones in place due to high fire danger.
Fire Disturbance Point
This dataset shows the locations of ignition points for forest fires less than 40 hectares in size. Fires that grow larger than 40 hectares are mapped in the [Fire Disturbance Area](https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/fire-disturbance-area-firedstb) dataset. The [Forest Fire Info Map](https://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM&locale=en-US) shows active fires, current fire danger and restricted fire zones in place due to high fire danger.
Fire Disturbance Area
A Fire Disturbance Area represents the mapped exterior perimeter of a forest fire. Mapping is derived from a variety of sources, such as GPS points and digitized paper maps. Prior to 1998, only fires greater than 200 hectares were mapped. Since 1998, fires greater than 40 hectares have been mapped. If adequate mapping exists for fires less than 40 hectares in size, they will be included in this data class. The [Forest Fire Info Map](https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM) shows active fires, current fire danger and restricted fire zones in place due to high fire danger.
Historical Fire Management Zone
This dataset shows the boundaries of the province's six fire management zones that existed prior to 2014 in which most forest fires received the same type of response. These management zones were based on: * common forest and forest fire management objectives * land use * density of values at risk * fire load * forest ecology The 2014 Wildland Fire Management Strategy moved from a zone-based approach to one where each wildland fire is assessed and receives an appropriate response according to the circumstances and condition of the fire.
Annual forest fire reporting data
Get data on forest fires, compiled annually for the National Forestry Database [The National Forestry Database](http://nfdp.ccfm.org/en/index.php) includes national forest data and forest management statistics to seve as a credible, accurate and reliable source of information on forest management and its impact on the forest resource. Forest fire data is grouped into eight categories, which are further broken down by geographic location. These include: * number of fires by cause class and response category * area burned by cause class and response category * number of fires by month and response category * area burned by month and response category * number of fires by fire size class and response category * area burned by fire size class and response category * area burned by productivity class, stocking class, maturity class and response category * other fire statistics, such as property losses
BC Wildfire Fire Incident Locations - Historical
Wildfire historic incident point locations for all fire seasons before the current season. Supplied through various sources. Not to be used for legal purposes. This data includes all incidents tracked by BC Wildfire Service, ie. actual fires, suspected fires, nusiance fires, smoke chases, etc. On April 1 of each year this layer is updated with the previous fire season's data
Forest fires
The forest fire map shows forest fires that occurred mainly in the territory of southern Quebec, i.e. the area located south of the territorial limit of attributable forests. This map data makes it possible to improve knowledge about fire regimes and to meet the specific needs of special management plans following forest fires. They can also be used to meet a variety of study and research needs, such as analyzing the impact of climate change, modeling post-fire regeneration, and studying ecosystem dynamics. This information is obtained from and produced from a variety of sources, including satellite images, aerial photographs, field or aerial surveys, fire scar dating, and archival documents. This data contains four types of mapping as well as fire regime mapping: • Detailed fire mapping, from 1976 to the present. This mapping includes burn types, total burn and partial burn, when information is available. In addition, for fires that have been characterized, information on the classes of burning patterns is added. The minimum mapping area can be up to 0.1 ha, depending on the source products used. This map is partially available for areas located in the north of southern Quebec. • Mapping the simplified contours of fires, from 1972 to today. This map shows the external contours of fires (without fragmentation), in order to represent them globally in a product that is easily usable and can be integrated into current information systems, GPS or others. Resulting from the fusion of detailed fire mapping, this product was designed to meet various customer needs. This map is partially available for the sectors located in the north of southern Quebec. • The mapping of the origin of fires having been listed by the protection organizations (e.g.: SOPFEU) for the period from 1972 to today. This mapping includes the date, the source of ignition (human or lightning) and the protection zone. It is available for all of Quebec. • The mapping of ancient fires concerns fires that occurred between the very end of the 19th century and 1975. This mapping comes from the information present on the forest maps of the first and second inventories, as well as from the information contained on the ecoforest maps of the third and fourth inventories. The dating of these fires is done using various methods, including the analysis of study trees bearing fire scars and the consultation of archival documents. This data is available for the following regions: Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (02), Bas-Saint-Laurent (02), Bas-Saint-Laurent (01), Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine (11), Abitibi-Témiscamingue (08), Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec (04-17), and Lanaudière-du-Québec (04-17), and Lanaudière-Laurentides (14-15). • Mapping fire regimes in southern Quebec. This map shows 13 zones with distinct fire regimes. These areas were delineated based on available information on the areas burned during the period 1890-2020 and other potentially decisive environmental variables, such as physiography, the abundance of different tree species known to be dependent on fire as well as the location of natural and anthropogenic ignitions. Fire regime mapping covers all forest areas under management as well as a more northern portion that is not managed. The detailed methodology is presented in Forest Research Paper no. 189 “Zoning fire regimes in southern Quebec” (coming soon). This zoning may be useful to ensure better consideration of the risk of fire in a forest management context. It can also serve as a territorial basis for projecting future fire activity taking into account various factors, such as climate change, fire suppression as well as changes in the types of fuels and their distribution on the territory.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**
Preventive measures related to forest fires
__IMPORTANT NOTES__: * The official description of the territory targeted by preventive measures in connection with forest fires remains the one found in the order of the Ministry of Public Security (MSP) and published on the __Québec.ca__ site. The link is provided in the _Documentation_ section located at the bottom of the page. * The data disseminated on this page is a cartographic representation of the official territory identified in the ministerial order for ease of visualization and cannot be used for other purposes. * __If no measures are in place__, no polygon will be displayed on the interactive map or will be present in the downloaded data. ------------ Preventive measures may be ordered by the Minister of Public Safety (MSP) under the Article 150.9 of the _Fire Safety Act_ (chapter S-3.4), resulting from the sanction of bill _Law 50_ (An Act to enact the _Civil Safety Act_ to promote resilience to disasters and to amend various provisions relating in particular to emergency communications centers and forest fire protection) in May 2024. These measures are implemented when a forest fire or the risk of such a fire so requires. The ultimate objective is to ensure public safety. The measures in place must be respected from the date of their implementation until they are withdrawn or amended. The two most frequently applied measures are the ban on open fires in or near the forest (IFCO) and the ban on driving and accessing the forest (ICAF). Other measures could also be issued by the minister, depending on the extent of the situation. SOPFEU also issues a notice of restriction or cessation of forest work (RTF) to its members. The following paragraphs detail each of the measures. __Prohibition of open fires in or near forests (IFCO) __ This measure aims to reduce the incidence of the ignition of man-made fires by prohibiting open fires in a given territory. An open fire is defined as any outdoor fire that burns freely or that could spread into a forest area, such as a campfire or fireplace, a pyrotechnic element, a flame, or a spark produced by an object. The following activities are allowed: * a solid fuel fireplace, stove or barbecue fire, ignited in an installation provided for this purpose and equipped with a spark arrester whose openings have a maximum dimension of 1 cm; * a stove or barbecue running on gas, ethanol or other non-solid fuel. __Prohibition of movement and access in the forest (ICAF) __ This measure aims to ensure public safety by prohibiting the population from all forest travel in a territory determined by the minister. Only persons involved in firefighting, public safety or authorized by a representative of the Minister, and only as part of an ongoing operation, can access the forest. This measure may or may not be accompanied by an evacuation order. __Restriction of forest work (RTF) __ This measure is issued by SOPFEU to its members and constitutes a recommendation to completely suspend (24 hours a day), or to restrict to certain periods of the day (12 p.m. to 8 p.m. or 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.), forest work as well as forest management activities. It is being deployed in accordance with the implementation of a ban on open fires in forests (IFCO).**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**
Number of large fires (>200 hectares) - Short-term (2011-2040) under RCP 8.5
The fire regime describes the patterns of fire seasonality, frequency, size, spatial continuity, intensity, type (e.g., crown or surface fire) and severity in a particular area or ecosystem.The number of large fires refers to the annual number of fires greater than 200 hectares (ha) that occur per units of 100,000 ha. It was calculated per Homogeneous Fire Regime (HFR) zones. These HFR zones represent areas where the fire regime is similar over a broad spatial scale (Boulanger et al. 2014). Such zonation is useful in identifying areas with unusual fire regimes that would have been overlooked if fires had been aggregated according to administrative and/or ecological classifications.Fire data comes from the Canadian National Fire Database covering 1959–1999 (for HFR zones building) and 1959-1995 (for model building). Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) modeling was used to relate monthly fire regime attributes with monthly climatic/fire-weather in each HFR zone. Future climatic data were simulated using the Canadian Earth System Model version 2 (CanESM2) and downscaled at a 10 Km resolution using ANUSPLIN for two different Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP). RCPs are different greenhouse gas concentration trajectories adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its fifth Assessment Report. RCP 2.6 (referred to as rapid emissions reductions) assumes that greenhouse gas concentrations peak between 2010-2020, with emissions declining thereafter. In the RCP 8.5 scenario (referred to as continued emissions increases) greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise throughout the 21st century.Provided layer: projected number of large fires (>200 ha) across Canada for the short-term (2011-2040) under the RCP 8.5 (continued emissions increases).Reference: Boulanger, Y., Gauthier, S., et al. 2014. A refinement of models projecting future Canadian fire regimes using homogeneous fire regime zones. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44, 365–376.
Fire, aviation and emergency facilities
Facilities used by MNR's Aviation Forest Fire and Emergency Services branch. This dataset is used to support aviation forest fire and AFFES business operations. *[MNR]: Ministry of Natural Resources *[AFFES]: Aviation Forest Fire and Emergency Services
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