Wildfires are unplanned or uncontrolled fires. They can cause cultural loss, damage crops, and drive pollution that affects human health. This indicator shows how many km² per grid cell were exposed to at least one wildfire in the past 12 months.
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The CCVI data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
The CCVI is updated on a regular basis. Find the release history here:
First release of the CCVI data.
Second release of the CCVI data. Planned for Nov 2024.
Latest quarter: Q2-2024
Created: 2 weeks ago
A lean download of only the data from the latest quarter, as used in this website, in tsv format.
Full dataset including historical time series and reference data in parquet format