HumAID — greece_wildfires_2018

A Twitter dataset of 1,515 tweets from greece_wildfires_2018, collected by Alam et al. for greece_wildfires_2018 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the greece_wildfires_2018 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Greece#Humaid#Humanitarian category

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9.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
greecewildfirespeopleathensfirevictimsgreekgreecefireshelpprayforgreecenewsfirestolldeathwildfireatticadeadkilledathensfiresaffectedmatiπυρκαγιαnearinjuredthoughtsprayforathensampfamiliesdevastatingdeadlymissinglosttragedydiedsupportdonateprayershomesrelieflivescondolencesneedgreecewildfiresdonationsdozensgreecesrisesaidcountryfriends
Topic clusters

Topic 0

toll
death
rise
hospital
wildfire
greece
increase
search

Topic 1

relief
aid
victim
support
hellenic
cross
help
red

Topic 2

attica
region
risk
high
warn
death
toll
civil

Topic 3

donate
help
money
donation
prayforgreece
want
need
charity

Topic 4

attica
victim
help
donate
raise
fire
campaign
donation

Topic 5

dog
animal
pet
rescue
find
survive
volunteer
donation

Topic 6

lose
athens
people
prayforgreece
life
burn
house
thing

Topic 7

twin
miss
declare
dead
old
day
mourning
year

Topic 8

kill
near
athens
resort
people
flee
wildfire
disaster

Topic 9

tsipras
minister
alexis
toskas
responsibility
protection
criticism
prime

Topic 10

arson
illegal
building
indication
suspect
news
demolish
evidence

Topic 11

footage
aerial
photo
sweden
world
wildfire
devastation
satellite
Show all 22 topics

Topic 12

prayforathen
prayforgreece
pray
people
lose
prayer
tragedy
heart

Topic 13

dozen
kill
dead
miss
force
near
injure
wildfire

Topic 14

irish
honeymoon
irishman
confirm
man
couple
ireland
catch

Topic 15

condolence
difficult
help
family
offer
life
rescue
solidarity

Topic 16

prayforathen
prayforgreece
yunanistan
turkey
pray
heart
brother
dear

Topic 17

decade
bad
hit
sea
deadly
flee
die
force

Topic 18

begin
survivor
search
funeral
greeces
horror
bury
heartbreak

Topic 19

injure
bbc
dead
countrys
fires
evacuate
european
bad

Topic 20

bank
account
special
iban
support
open
victim
financial

Topic 21

mati
village
town
forestfire
drive
worst
destroy
leave
Top hashtags
#greece566
#greecefires266
#prayforgreece209
#wildfires178
#news140
#athensfires116
#athens111
#πυρκαγια97
#prayforathens90
#mati79
#greecewildfires47
#attica44
#fire32
#fires32
#wildfire24
#greekfires23
#greecefire21
#greek20
#go17
#greeces16

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-greece_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
1,515
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, 300.9 KB 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

126
citations
well cited
16
influential citations
13% of all citations

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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.

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 — greece_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 — greece_wildfires_2018. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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