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Fire workgroup for 2022 platform

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Background

Coordinators: Jeff Vukovich (EPA) and Rhonda Payne (WESTAR)

The Fires workgroup will review the 2022 draft and final fire inventories for correctness and completeness. The draft wild and prescribed fire inventory will be prepared using SMARTFIRE2 and BlueSky Pipeline, using activity data sets including the Hazard Mapping System (HMS), Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) reports, and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) shapefiles (formerly GeoMAC). State and local data will also be incorporated where available. For 2022 agricultural fires, a day-specific FF10 point dataset is available and was developed using the same method as the point agricultural fire data in the 2020 NEI.

Jeff sent out an optional data request for those who want to provide data in October. All fire activity data is due by December 8, 2023.

A first draft of the fire inventory was shared November 22, 2023.

  • OF NOTE
    • The wildland emissions are separated into fireloc files for each state as we normally do for NEI efforts.
    • There are a few summaries available as well and the agricultural burn estimates are in a separate sub-folder (ag_burns).
    • Pile burn emissions are not included in this first draft. This tech memo provides more details on how EPA intends to calculate emissions from pile burns.

The first workgroup meeting will be Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at 10am eastern.

Meetings

2022 Fire Collaboration Kickoff Meeting - December 12, 2023

Agenda
  • Welcome and Roll Call
  • Mission
    • Base year is main goal
    • Wildfires, prescribed burns (with pile burns) and ag burns
    • No plans for analytic year scenarios for fires at EPA
  • Draft version
    • Activity data used
    • Tools used
    • Summary of emissions
  • Pile burns
    • Initial version coming soon
    • States that want to be involved?
  • Activity data request: deadline is Dec 8th
  • Next steps and updated timeline
  • When do we meet again? Likely March but TBD