data_sources/DATA_SOURCES.md

# Data Sources

This repository does not redistribute raw data. The table below records the
resources used by the paper, their role in the experiments, and public access
entry points. Users must obtain each source under its own terms.

| Source | Role in paper | Public access entry point |
|---|---|---|
| NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) | Dynamic weather fields for the California regional gridded occupancy inputs. | NOAA/NCEI HRRR product page: <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/high-resolution-rapid-refresh>; AWS Open Data archive: <https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-hrrr-pds/>. |
| NASA FIRMS active-fire detections | Active-fire detections used to derive gridded occupancy labels. | FIRMS download and API services: <https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/download/> and <https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/>. |
| LANDFIRE 40 Fire Behavior Fuel Models | Static fuel layer used in the FireWx-FM gridded input. | LANDFIRE data access portal: <https://landfire.gov/data>. |
| LANDFIRE Forest Canopy Cover | Static canopy layer used in the FireWx-FM gridded input. | LANDFIRE data access portal: <https://landfire.gov/data>. |
| Wildfire Risk to Communities housing-unit density | Static exposure layer used in the FireWx-FM gridded input. | Wildfire Risk to Communities data access: <https://wildfirerisk.org/download/>. |
| LandScan Global 2024 | Static population layer used in the FireWx-FM gridded input. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory LandScan access: <https://landscan.ornl.gov/>. |
| WFIGS incident/perimeter attributes | Event-level incident metadata for supporting burned-area and analog tasks. | NIFC Open Data portal for WFIGS layers: <https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/>. |
| MTBS burned area and burn severity | Event-scale burned-area and burn-severity records for supporting tasks. | MTBS data access and direct download pages: <https://www.mtbs.gov/> and <https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-download>. |
| Earth-FM/backbone sources | Frozen feature sources for transferred Earth-FM comparisons. | Original model providers and their terms. Examples include Hugging Face model cards, model-provider GitHub repositories, and provider-hosted model files. |

## Notes

- The paper places gridded resources on a projected 5 km EPSG:5070 grid.
- The bundled artifacts contain summary values only. They are not a substitute
  for the original data.
- Full raw-data reruns require users to obtain each source independently and to
  construct the intermediate grids/features described in the paper.
- Access mechanisms and licensing can change. The links above are entry points,
  not redistributed copies.