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Fire Weather Index (FWI) via World Bank/GFDRR

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: FWI 2-year return period (yearly maximum Fire Weather Index) · FWI 10-year return period · FWI 30-year return period
Coverage docs-verified: Global · 1981–2016 (source daily FWI record used to derive the return levels)
Resolution docs-verified: 0.5° global grid (spatial); one yearly-maximum return level per pixel per return period, not a time series
Update frequency docs-verified: None planned (static dataset; World Bank lists 'No further updates planned')
Formats docs-verified: COG (cloud-optimized GeoTIFF)
Access docs-verified: Public, anonymous HTTPS access via data.source.coop (no API key stated); licence CC BY 4.0, attribute World Bank and CSIRO

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Wildfire hazard context (2/10/30-year FWI return levels at a point) for climate-risk or resilience sections of planning and EIA reports · Regional wildfire screening layer in GIS alongside other hazard datasets for site or catchment-scale projects · Point sampling of FWI return levels via rasterio for scripted hazard screening
Audience llm-inferred: environmental consultants · planners · GIS analysts · climate risk analysts

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Mirror of the World Bank dataset, not the official publication; original GeoTIFFs and technical PDF are published by the World Bank · No further upstream updates planned; source FWI record ends in 2016 · Value 0 marks masked oceans and deserts as well as cells with no fire weather, so it can be misread as a real value · Agent guide lists further quirks that produce wrong answers and should be read before querying

Licence: see product README
Authentication: Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop
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Last commit: Unknown
Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
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Provenance & evidence

Verified via Source Cooperative API /api/v1/products/portolan-mirrors (public product, updated 2026-10-12).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (source.coop)