Look into fire databases

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I wanted to enrich the Wikidata item for the currently ongoing Kincase Fire a bit and thus ventured into the world of databases about fires.

Turns out that there

• does not currently seem to be a Wikidata property related to an identifier for a fire, as per https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/propbrowse/
• are multiple databases covering fires, e.g.
  • Global Wildfire Information System
  • WorldView
  • California Department of Forestry & Fire protection's list of incidents
  • Kincade Fire

None of them seems to be exposing persistent identifiers for fires, though the one for the Kincade Fire could be used as a URI.

There is also the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which does expose PIDs, but if I see this correctly, only for fires that have news items associated with them, e.g.

• https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/applications/fire-news/fire/12821/detail

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is a query for the Wikidata data model used for wildfires:

SELECT DISTINCT ?property ?propertyLabel ?count
WITH {
  SELECT DISTINCT ?property (COUNT(*) AS ?count) WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q169950 ;
    ?p [ ] .
    ?property a wikibase:Property;
                wikibase:claim ?p.
  }
  GROUP BY ?property 
  } AS %results WHERE {
  INCLUDE %results.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?count)
LIMIT 100