Scientific Data (Aug 2023)

A decade of urban fires: Portuguese events between 2013 and 2022

  • Regina Bispo,
  • Filipe J. Marques,
  • Alexandre Penha,
  • Pedro Espadinha-Cruz,
  • António Grilo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02476-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract This study describes a dataset containing urban fire events that took place in mainland Portugal between 2013 and 2022. The Regulation n.º3317-A/2018, established by the Portuguese National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil, ANEPC), defines the Operations Management System (Sistema de Gestão de Operações, SGO). Among other attributions, this system allows to manage the lyfe-cycle of the urban fire events, from ignition to extinction, through the Operations Decision Support System (Sistema de Apoio à Decisão Operacional, SADO). This system supports the systematic collection of a minimum set of data on each event. All instances included in the dataset were retrieved from SADO. To make the data suitable for analytic purposes, several pre-processing actions were taken, including the steps of data transformation and cleaning. The dataset was further validated by a set of technical procedures aiming to verify both data correctness and utility. The final dataset provides the most recent multi-year record of Portuguese urban fires including 27 variables on 72641 events.