electricsheepasia/asia-owid-area-burned-wildfires-by-type

Area Burned Wildfires By Type | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 1,104 observations · 48 Asia countries · 2002–2024 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,104 observations of Area Burned Wildfires By Type data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 2002–2024.

About the source

• —Source: Our World in Data
• —Publisher: Our World in Data
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Area Burned Wildfires By Type

Geographic coverage

48 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-area-burned-wildfires-by-type")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Shrublands and grasslands")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_area_burned_wildfires_by_type_2024,
  title        = {Area Burned Wildfires By Type | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/area-burned-wildfires-by-type},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-area-burned-wildfires-by-type}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-02 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/area-burned-wildfires-by-type