NPWS currently does not have centralised operational programs for recording of fires.
Vegetation burning if encountered through surveillance of Natura 2000 sites or targeted scientific monitoring, may* be reported as a pressure in section 4.3 “Threats, pressures and activities with impacts on the site” of the site EU report, called the Natura 2000 Standard Data Form.
These reports are available via the NPWS website by designation type and site code (‘Natura form’), e.g. https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000407; https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/protected-sites/natura2000/NF000407.pdf) and are also accessible through the European Environment Agency’s EIONET Natura 2000 viewer https://natura2000.eea.europa.eu/#
NPWS targeted habitat and species monitoring programs may detect fires outside this network and these may* be reported as a pressure or threat in the monitoring publications which are also published to the NPWS website (https://www.npws.ie/publications, https://www.npws.ie/maps-and-data/habitat-and-species-data), as well as the Heritage Division web mapping portal of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html and Data.gov.ie.
Work is ongoing to address a backlog of report data to publish as open access data through the NPWS website and data.gov.ie.
