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:

@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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