Wildfires in South Korea

Authors: Tyson Johnson, Hyeyeon Kweon
Date Published: December 18, 2024

This application visualizes wildfire data in South Korea. The data includes information on the location, date, and size of wildfires. The map allows users to explore the distribution of wildfires across provinces and cities in South Korea. The data can be filtered by date, season, and month to analyze the temporal patterns of wildfires.

Note: The map was made in Leaflet, and the tile layer is CartoDB.Positron.

Data Collection

We acquired the wildfire data from the Korea Forest Service .

summary() of fire dataset


              

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Boundaries for the provinces (시도) and cities (시군구) of South Korea were acquired from www.gisdeveloper.co.kr .

summary() of province shapefile


              

str() of province shapefile


            

summary() of city shapefile


              

str() city shapefile


            
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