LANDFIRE (LF), a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represents the first and only complete nationally consistent collection of more than 25 geospatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models.
LANDFIRE Map Viewer
The interactive viewer offers a simplified interface, streamlined downloads, and improvements in data layer visualization.
New Age of LANDFIRE
The story map is intended to provide update details, especially for LANDFIRE 2020, to current or returning LANDFIRE users and to be transparent about the effort involved with each new release.
LANDFIRE, products can be used across all lands and multiple disciplines to support cross-boundary planning, management, and operations. In addition, LF’s detailed geospatial mapping products have become a critical component of wildfire and post-fire modeling, land management decisions, fire risk assessments, firefighter safety, and have proven useful across a wide variety of scientific disciplines and applications.
While LANDFIRE provides geo-spatial layers for strategic planning, the data can be used for other natural resource management activities. LANDFIRE meets landscape-scale assessment needs with consistent cross-boundary vegetation-and fire-related data.
Other ways LANDFIRE is used include:
- Running fire behavior models at a landscape scale
- Providing historical disturbance regimes and vegetation patterns
- Aiding in estimating ecosystem site potential.
- Exploring the impact of changing age class distributions on carbon dynamics of forests
More examples of how LANDFIRE products are produced and used can be found on the LANDFIRE website under Applications. You can also search for LANDFIRE data case studies such as fire incident management, fire incidents, fuels planning and threatened species studies in the Document Library. Additional applications can be found on the LANDFIRE Web-Hosted Applications Map (WHAM!), an online, interactive map that shares the applications, locations, and partners working with LANDFIRE data.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Eyes on Earth Episode 56 – Modeling the Past to Plan for the Future
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how scientists built a map of pre-Colonial land cover in the U.S.
Eyes on Earth Episode 51 – LANDFIRE 2019 Limited
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about a new update to LANDFIRE mapping products.
Eyes on Earth Episode 48 – Satellites and the Forest Census
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear how the Nation’s forest census aids satellite-based mapping efforts.
Eyes on Earth Episode 30 – Remapping LANDFIRE
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about LANDFIRE and a yearslong project to improve the critical nationwide data source.
Eyes on Earth Episode 24 – Wildfire Risk to Communities
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear about a national wildfire risk tool built using satellite-derived mapping data produced at EROS.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
Below are news stories associated with this project.
LANDFIRE Updates Valuable Firefighting Data
A wildfire sparks an average of 60,000 times a year in the United States. Fortunately, it is not just anybody’s guess where it goes from there—whose house it might burn or which town it might decimate.
- Overview
LANDFIRE (LF), a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represents the first and only complete nationally consistent collection of more than 25 geospatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models.
LANDFIRE Map Viewer
The interactive viewer offers a simplified interface, streamlined downloads, and improvements in data layer visualization.
New Age of LANDFIRE
The story map is intended to provide update details, especially for LANDFIRE 2020, to current or returning LANDFIRE users and to be transparent about the effort involved with each new release.
LANDFIRE, products can be used across all lands and multiple disciplines to support cross-boundary planning, management, and operations. In addition, LF’s detailed geospatial mapping products have become a critical component of wildfire and post-fire modeling, land management decisions, fire risk assessments, firefighter safety, and have proven useful across a wide variety of scientific disciplines and applications.
While LANDFIRE provides geo-spatial layers for strategic planning, the data can be used for other natural resource management activities. LANDFIRE meets landscape-scale assessment needs with consistent cross-boundary vegetation-and fire-related data.
Other ways LANDFIRE is used include:
- Running fire behavior models at a landscape scale
- Providing historical disturbance regimes and vegetation patterns
- Aiding in estimating ecosystem site potential.
- Exploring the impact of changing age class distributions on carbon dynamics of forests
More examples of how LANDFIRE products are produced and used can be found on the LANDFIRE website under Applications. You can also search for LANDFIRE data case studies such as fire incident management, fire incidents, fuels planning and threatened species studies in the Document Library. Additional applications can be found on the LANDFIRE Web-Hosted Applications Map (WHAM!), an online, interactive map that shares the applications, locations, and partners working with LANDFIRE data.
- Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Eyes on Earth Episode 56 – Modeling the Past to Plan for the Future
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how scientists built a map of pre-Colonial land cover in the U.S.
Eyes on Earth Episode 51 – LANDFIRE 2019 Limited
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about a new update to LANDFIRE mapping products.
Eyes on Earth Episode 48 – Satellites and the Forest Census
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear how the Nation’s forest census aids satellite-based mapping efforts.
Eyes on Earth Episode 30 – Remapping LANDFIRE
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about LANDFIRE and a yearslong project to improve the critical nationwide data source.
Eyes on Earth Episode 24 – Wildfire Risk to Communities
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we hear about a national wildfire risk tool built using satellite-derived mapping data produced at EROS.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is an interagency program whose goal is to consistently map the burn severity and extent of large fires across all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. This includes all fires 1,000 acres or greater in the western United States and 500 acres or greater in the eastern Unites States. The extent of coverage includes the continental U.S., Alaska... - Multimedia
- Publications
- Web Tools
- News
Below are news stories associated with this project.
LANDFIRE Updates Valuable Firefighting Data
A wildfire sparks an average of 60,000 times a year in the United States. Fortunately, it is not just anybody’s guess where it goes from there—whose house it might burn or which town it might decimate.
- Partners