MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertNWSFireZones: Convert NWS Public Forecast Zones Shapefile

Description

Create a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for NWS weather forecast zones

Usage

convertNWSFireZones(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

Arguments

nameOnly

Logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file.

simplify

Logical specifying whether to create "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%.

Details

A NWS forecast zone shapefile is downloaded and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir().

The source data is from 2020.

References

https://www.weather.gov/gis/FireZones

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getVariable