ICS-209-PLUS - An all-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2014
This paper describes a new dataset mined from the public archive (1999-2014) of the U.S. National Incident Management System/Incident Command System Incident Status Summary Form (a total of 124,411 reports for 25,083 incidents, including 24,608 wildfires). This system captures detailed information on incident management costs, personnel, hazard characteristics, values at risk, fatalities, and structural damage. Most (98.5%) of the reports are fire-related, followed in decreasing order by other, hurricane, hazardous materials, flood, tornado, search and rescue, civil unrest, and winter storms. The archive, although publicly available, has been difficult to use due to multiple record formats, inconsistent free-form fields, and no bridge between individual reports and high-level incident analysis. Here, we describe this improved dataset and the open, reproducible methods used, including merging records across three versions of the system, cleaning and aligning with the current system, smoothing values across reports, and supporting incident-level analysis. This integrated record offers the opportunity to explore the daily progression of the most costly, damaging, and deadly events in the U.S., particularly for wildfires.
Data Description:
The ics209-plus-allhazards.zip file contains the complete set of cleaned all hazards situation reports
ics209-plus_sitreps_1999to2014.csv
The ics209-plus-wildfire.zip file contains all wildfire output files including daily situation reports, the incident summary table, and complex associations.
ics209-plus-wf_sitreps_1999to2014.csv
ics209-plus-wf_incidents_1999to2014.csv
ics209-plus-wf_complex_assocs_1999to2013.csv
ics209-plus-wf_complex_assocs_2014.csv
**Deleted historical wildfire sitreps (2 files)
The ics209-plus-source.zip file contains all the yearly raw database tables and associated input files needed to run the cleaning algorithm found here:
(https://github/lisestdenis/ics209plus)
The ics209-plus-reference.zip file contains detailed table definitions and fill rates for the Incident Summary and Daily Situation Reports Tables as well as Lookup Table definitions.
