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Recent large fires in California may be harbingers of things to come.

With a vegetation and fuels base map that was over 15 years old and a commitment to keep LANDFIRE (LF) data relevant, LF staff at EROS has produced a...

The purpose of this study is to make a quantitative comparison of Fire Potential Index (fpi) rasters created by identical processes and on coincident...

With California burning in the fall of 2018, the conversation came up yet once again.

How do we prevent monster fires with names like Camp and Woolsey...

A new multi-CASC funded project will explore post-fire sagebrush recovery using Landsat data.

When a wildfire rampages through a sagebrush domain, restoring the landscape’s natural vegetation afterward is often a dicey proposition. But now...

New post-wildfire resource guide now available to help communities cope with flood and debris flow danger.

For all the great Federal records and remotely sensed products out there that have documented fires across the United States through the decades, it...

USGS researchers created an interactive Fuels Guide and Database, providing vegetation and fuel loading information and photographs for big sagebrush...

In the years since its beginnings in 2004, LANDFIRE has become invaluable to wildfire prevention and response, land management, and environmental...