electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442

Forest Fires and Area Affected | Africa (MDPA)

40 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2008-2017 - 1 indicator - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 40 rows from MDPA, covering Forest Fires and Area Affected. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Agriculture datasets help analysts examine production, prices, inputs, land use, food systems, and rural economic activity.

Source-provided context: Data shows forest fires and area affected from year 2008 to 2021

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one indicator observation for one geography, time period, and optional source dimensions.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3, year, indicator_id.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	40
Countries/areas	1
First period	2008
Last period	2017
Indicators	1
Columns	20
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	40	2008	2017	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442 - Forest fires and area affected.(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Forest fires and area affected.
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2008
value	double	Numeric observation value.	26.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_year	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Number of incidents
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2008
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2017
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2008-2017
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Forest fires and area affected.
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Table-1.26-Forest-fires-and-area-affected-2008-2017_0.xlsx
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	46fa24bb-7969-415c-b30f-988b3ba27a6d
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	35dd1400-e899-47a2-9245-86a99334521b
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/46fa24bb-7969-415c-b30f-988b3ba27a6d/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• Canonical time field: year.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: Table-1.26-Forest-fires-and-area-affected-2008-2017_0.xlsx
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:28:54Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Track production or price movements
• Compare regions or commodities
• Join with climate and trade data
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Pivot to geography x period or indicator x period matrices
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_forest_fires_and_area_affected_48688442_2017,
  title        = {Forest Fires and Area Affected | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/forest-fires-and-area-affected},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-fires-and-area-affected-48688442}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/forest-fires-and-area-affected