README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: FireScope-Bench
tags:
- wildfire
- remote-sensing
- geospatial
- reasoning
- CoT
task_categories:
- image-text-to-image
- image-to-image
---

# FireScope-Bench dataset

This dataset accompanies the paper:

**FireScope: Wildfire Risk Prediction with a Chain-of-Thought Oracle**\
Accepted to **CVPR 2026**\
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17171

## File and Folder Description

### `climate_data.json`

Contains climate data for various coordinates.\
There is a correspondence between coordinates encoded in tile/raster
filenames and dictionary keys in this file.

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### `usa/wildfire_rasters`

#### `images/`

Sentinel-2 satellite images corresponding to wildfire risk rasters.
Images are fused in **2×2 tiles**, resulting in **\~2K resolution
images**.

#### `rasters/`

Wildfire risk rasters from the **Wildfire Risk to Communities**
project.\
Rasters are fused in **2×2 tiles**, resulting in **682×682 resolution
rasters**.

#### `small_sample/`

Small sample subset used for the majority of the **FireScope
experiments**.

-   `images/` -- Sentinel-2 images for the small sample
-   `rasters/` -- wildfire risk rasters for the small sample

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### `usa/wildfire_events`

#### `images/`

Sentinel-2 images for wildfire events, organized in subdirectories by
**year**.

Images are **pre-event** images.\
Therefore, images located in folder **Y** correspond to wildfire events
in **year Y+1** and are named accordingly to match the corresponding
event mask.

#### `masks/`

Wildfire event masks from the **MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn
Severity)** dataset.

#### `controls/`

Masks for control areas (zero-masks).

#### `controls_images/`

Sentinel-2 images corresponding to the control areas.

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### `europe/wildfire_events`

#### `images/`

Sentinel-2 images for wildfire events, organized in subdirectories by
**year**.

Images are **pre-event** images.\
Therefore, images located in folder **Y** correspond to wildfire events
in **year Y+1** and are named accordingly to match the corresponding
event mask.

#### `masks/`

Wildfire event masks from the **EFFIS Burnt Areas dataset**.

#### `controls/`

Masks for control areas (zero-masks).

#### `controls_images/`

Sentinel-2 images corresponding to the control areas.

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## Licensing

This dataset aggregates data from multiple sources and is released under
**Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)**.

Underlying data sources include:

-   **Sentinel-2 satellite imagery** (Copernicus programme)
-   **Wildfire Risk to Communities** rasters
-   **MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity)** wildfire event data
-   **EFFIS Burnt Areas dataset**
-   **NASA POWER climate data**

Users should also comply with the licensing and attribution requirements
of the original data providers.

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## Citation

If you find this work useful in your research, please cite:

``` bibtex
@article{markov2025firescope,
  title={FireScope: Wildfire Risk Prediction with a Chain-of-Thought Oracle},
  author={Markov, Mario and Ailuro, Stefan Maria and Van Gool, Luc and Schindler, Konrad and Paudel, Danda Pani},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17171},
  year={2025}
}
```

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