Forest fires data

Source: R/FFTreesdata_doc.R

A dataset of forest fire statistics.

forestfires

Format

A data frame containing 517 rows and 13 columns.

X

Integer -x-axis spatial coordinate within the Montesinho park map: 1 to 9

Y

Integer - y-axis spatial coordinate within the Montesinho park map: 2 to 9

month

Factor - month of the year: "jan" to "dec"

day

Factor -day of the week: "mon" to "sun"

FFMC

Numeric -FFMC index from the FWI system: 18.7 to 96.20

DMC

Numeric - DMC index from the FWI system: 1.1 to 291.3

DC

Numeric - DC index from the FWI system: 7.9 to 860.6

ISI

Numeric - ISI index from the FWI system: 0.0 to 56.10

temp

Numeric - temperature in Celsius degrees: 2.2 to 33.30

RH

Numeric - relative humidity in percent: 15.0 to 100

wind

Numeric - wind speed in km/h: 0.40 to 9.40

rain

Numeric - outside rain in mm/m2 : 0.0 to 6.4

fire.crit

Criterion: Was there a fire (greater than 1.00 ha)?

Values: TRUE (yes) vs. FALSE (no) (47.0% vs. 53.0%).

Source

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Forest+Fires

Original creator: Prof. Paulo Cortez and Aníbal Morais Department of Information Systems University of Minho, Portugal

Details

We made the following enhancements to the original data for improved usability:

  • The criterion was redefined from a numeric variable that indicated the number of hectares that burned in a fire into a logical variable (TRUE (for values >1) vs. FALSE (for values <=1)).

Other than that, the data remains consistent with the original dataset.