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QGIS Model: Wildfire Burn Index, Before and After Burn Severity

Maps a wildfire's burn scar and severity from two Sentinel-2 scenes, before and after, and counts the buildings and roads inside it.

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Format
ZIP: .model3 file, PDF guide and licence, 115 KB
Requirements
QGIS 3.34 or later, QuickOSM plugin, internet connection
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution: Semir Kahrimanovic / Bozmaps)

About this model

Compares a Sentinel-2 scene from before a fire with one from after it. The model calculates the Normalized Burn Ratio for both dates and the difference between them (dNBR), sorts dNBR into the five burn severity classes of Key and Benson (2006), turns the burned pixels into patches with their area in hectares, measures the area of each severity class, and uses OpenStreetMap to find the buildings and roads inside the burned area. A one-row summary, the severity table and the patch list go into a spreadsheet. Every output follows the CRS of your bands. It maps a scar after a fire: it does not detect active fire, model spread or mask cloud, and dNBR also responds to mowing, harvest and drought, so draw your study area around the fire. Tested on the 2018 Saddleworth Moor fire.

What's included

  • Wildfire Burn Index QGIS model (.model3), version 2
  • PDF guide with method, severity classes, inputs, outputs, limits and test results
  • Licence

Inputs

  • AOI polygon
  • Before fire: Sentinel-2 Band 8 (NIR) and Band 12 (SWIR2)
  • After fire: Sentinel-2 Band 8 (NIR) and Band 12 (SWIR2)
  • Optional settings: burn threshold (default dNBR 0.27) and smallest patch (default 1 ha)

Outputs

  • NBR before, NBR after and dNBR rasters
  • Burn severity raster (5 classes, Key and Benson 2006)
  • Burned area patches with area in hectares
  • Area per severity class inside the burned area
  • OpenStreetMap buildings and roads inside the burned area, with road length
  • Summary and spreadsheet (.xlsx)

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