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site: USGS LANDFIRE Program

"The LF Program provides 20+ national geo-spatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models that are available to the public for the US and insular areas."

  • Reference

    • Public LANDFIRE Reference Database - LFRDB consists of vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide

      • USFS Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA)

      • USGS National Gap Analysis Program (GAP)

      • NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M)

      • natural community occurrences

      • estimates of canopy cover and height per plant taxon

      • occurrence of exotics plants

      • biomass estimates of downed woody material

      • percentage cover and height of shrub and herb layers

      • canopy base height estimates

    • Public Events Geodatabase - The LANDFIRE (LF) Public Events Geodatabase used in LF 2008 (LF 1.1.0), LF 2010 (LF 1.2.0), LF 2012 (LF 1.3.0), and LF 2014 (LF 1.4.0) , and LF Remap (LF 2.0.0) production is available and includes up to three feature classes for each geographic area:

      • Raw & Model Ready Events

        • natural disturbance and vegetation/fuel treatment data 1999-2016

      • Exotics

        • occurrence of exotic or invasive plant species 1999-2016

    • Forest Vegetation Simulator Ready Database

      • FVSRDB contains nationwide FVS analysis ready plot data (StandInit and TreeInit tables)

  • Disturbance - Disturbance products are developed to help inform updates to LANDFIRE (LF) data to reflect change on the landscape caused by management activities and natural disturbance.

    • Disturbance

      • Annual Disturbance

      • Vegetation Disturbance

      • Fuel Disturbance

      • Historical Disturbance

      • Public Events Geodatabase

    • Transition

      • Vegetation Transition Magnitude

      • Forest Vegetation Transitions Database

      • Non Forest Vegetation Transitions Database

      • Forest Vegetation Simulator Disturbance Database

  • Vegetation

    • Existing

      • Existing Vegetation Type

      • National Vegetation Classification

      • Existing Vegetation Cover

      • Existing Vegetation Height

    • Potential

      • Biophysical Settings

      • Biophysical Settings Models and Descriptions

      • Environmental Site Potential

    • Other

      • Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS)

      • LF Reference Database - Vegetation and fuel data

  • Fuel

    • Surface Fuel

      • 13 Anderson Fire Behavior Fuel Models

      • 40 Scott and Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models

      • Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

      • Fuel Characteristic Classification System Fuelbeds

      • Fuel Loading Models

      • Fuel Disturbance

    • Canopy Fuel

      • Forest Canopy Cover

      • Forest Canopy Height

      • Forest Canopy Bulk Density

      • Forest Canopy Base Height

    • Fuel Vegetation

      • Fuel Vegetation Type

      • Fuel Vegetation Cover

      • Fuel Vegetation Height

    • Other

      • Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS) - LF uses two indexes of MoD-FIS to account for fuel's seasonal variability which represent current, real-time conditions

      • Fuel Disturbance - integrated composites of individual disturbance years recoded by disturbance type, disturbance severity, and time since disturbance and screened for non-burnable vegetation to meet fuel transition mapping requirements

      • Landscape (.LCP) file - a service that provides a multi-band raster format used by wildland fire behavior and fire effect simulation models such as FARSITE and FlamMap

      • LF Reference Database (LFRDB) - consists of vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide

      • Fuel Rulesets Database — standalone fuel rulesets database exported from the LF Total Fuel Change Tool

  • Fire Regime

    • Historical Fire Frequency and Severity

      • Fire Regime Groups

      • Mean Fire Return Interval

      • Percent Low Severity Fire

      • Percent Mixed Severity Fire

      • Percent Replacement Severity Fire

    • Vegetation Departure

      • Vegetation condition class

      • Vegetation Departure

      • Succession Classes

  • Topographic - LCP file

    • Aspect

    • Elevation

    • Slope

  • Seasonal

    • Southeast Drought based Fuel Dynamic System

    • Great Basin/Southwest

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© Michael Peters - Mike@DisasterGIS.org

© Wanmei Liang-  W@DisasterGIS.org

All images and maps created by Mike Peters or Wanmei Liang unless noted on the image. 

Last Updated: 04/24/2021

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