HumAID — california_wildfires_2018

A Twitter dataset of 7,376 tweets from california_wildfires_2018, collected by Alam et al. for california_wildfires_2018 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the california_wildfires_2018 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#California#Camp fire#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian

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10.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
californiafiresfirewildfirespeoplewildfiredeathtollcamphelpdeadhomesampcampfiretrumpvictimsnorthernmissing000statekilleddestroyedparadisereliefforestlostaffecteddeadliesthistorynewsrisesdonatefirefighterscaliforniasrealdonaldtrumppresidentthousandsnewclimateneedcaliforniafirescountylivessupportdeadlysouthernlikeburnedeffortsdevastating
Topic clusters

Topic 0

destroy
paradise
history
destructive
town
structure
campfire
camp

Topic 1

relief
donate
help
victim
support
effort
foundation
donation

Topic 2

animal
pet
rescue
horse
wildlife
cat
dog
displace

Topic 3

trump
forest
management
blame
president
donald
mismanagement
federal

Topic 4

prayer
pray
thought
god
send
friend
safe
love

Topic 5

rain
mudslide
heavy
flash
flooding
search
area
complicate

Topic 6

toll
death
rise
climb
wildfire
california
jump
climbs

Topic 7

donation
camp
help
donate
campfire
victim
share
paradise

Topic 8

northern
toll
death
unaccounted
sheriff
rise
remain
wildfire

Topic 9

trump
tweet
president
potus
dead
blame
americans
life

Topic 10

aaron
rodgers
million
donate
relief
green
farm
brother

Topic 11

toll
death
northern
camp
history
rise
deadly
californias
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Topic 12

kill
thousand
wildfire
dead
people
flee
california
rage

Topic 13

miss
dead
people
kill
wildfire
nearly
number
california

Topic 14

toll
death
camp
rise
remain
percent
fire
contain

Topic 15

climate
change
global
warming
climatechange
temperature
hotter
dry

Topic 16

brown
jerry
management
forest
blame
governor
environmentalist
cause

Topic 17

evacuation
mandatory
order
update
quickly
campfire
lift
resident

Topic 18

thanksgiving
meal
victim
thankful
chef
volunteer
serve
dinner

Topic 19

retweet
donate
help
tweet
farm
coffee
hashtag
dollar

Topic 20

forest
tree
clear
forestry
management
national
thin
control

Topic 21

air
smoke
quality
mask
hazy
coast
east
health

Topic 22

butte
county
sheriff
honea
campfire
kory
toll
death

Topic 23

thank
firefighter
brave
responder
fight
work
safe
battle

Topic 24

chico
walmart
parking
lot
tent
camp
evacuee
center

Topic 25

brew
resilience
beer
sierra
nevada
relief
proud
resilienceipa

Topic 26

visit
trump
rise
death
toll
president
tour
survey

Topic 27

woolsey
southern
structure
destroy
woolseyfire
hill
update
contain

Topic 28

trump
president
rake
cut
forest
leaf
blame
know

Topic 29

cross
red
redcross
american
volunteer
help
provide
donation

Topic 30

utility
company
sue
large
lawsuit
hook
liability
customers

Topic 31

finland
rake
trump
comment
forest
president
floor
prevent

Topic 32

miss
toll
death
rise
record
hit
break
jazeera

Topic 33

kanye
west
relief
kim
donate
donates
kanyewest
plan

Topic 34

gerard
cyrus
butler
miley
celebrity
sheen
home
thicke

Topic 35

malibu
mansion
city
southern
resort
freeway
resident
evacuation

Topic 36

dew
start
fires
weapons
evidence
origin
suspicious
intentionally

Topic 37

die
people
sunset
dead
far
piece
pretty
death

Topic 38

video
watch
helicopter
footage
like
playlist
insane
share

Topic 39

zinke
radical
ryan
secretary
interior
environmentalist
blame
environmental

Topic 40

border
troop
send
caravan
migrant
military
wire
americans

Topic 41

ohio
punishment
liberal
gop
god
republican
dave
gods

Topic 42

northern
kill
sheriff
people
wildfire
confirm
vehicle
dead

Topic 43

gaga
lady
kardashian
pizza
kim
deliver
shelter
amid

Topic 44

energy
weapon
direct
laser
dew
directed
weapons
fires

Topic 45

history
toll
flee
death
rise
state
destructive
deadly

Topic 46

butte
county
camp
campfire
hospital
pajama
arf
sock

Topic 47

brexit
btw
fuck
fool
forest
life
nature
news

Topic 48

morning
good
beautiful
day
time
sunrise
live
malibu

Topic 49

illegal
homeless
citizen
veteran
need
help
worried
ppl
Top hashtags
#campfire604
#california307
#californiafires216
#wildfires173
#californiawildfires149
#woolseyfire132
#retweet4good77
#news55
#wildfire54
#climatechange51
#breaking44
#fires42
#paradise42
#trump38
#hillfire34
#californiafire32
#buttecounty31
#paradisefire31
#maga29
#buttestrong26

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-california_wildfires_2018
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2020
Source paper
HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
7,376
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2018 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.5 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, U. Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021

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citations
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influential citations
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How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{alam2020humaid,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management},
  series    = {ISCRAM '20}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Alam, F., Ofli, F., & Imran, M. (2020). HumAID — california_wildfires_2018 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Alam, Firoj, et al. HumAID — california_wildfires_2018. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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