LANDFIRE – Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning

• This multi-partner program produces consistent, comprehensive, geospatial data and databases that describe vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States and insular areas.
• LANDFIRE's mission is to provide agency leaders and managers with a common "all-lands" data set of vegetation and wildland fire/fuels information for strategic fire and resource management planning and analysis.
• LANDFIRE products provide data for landscape assessment, analysis, and management. Data and information directly serve decision support with efforts such as identification of areas with similar characteristics, prioritization exercises, modeling capacity and potential, and improving collaboration between landowners with common data sets and analytics.
• These resources are useful for practitioners in the fields of fire and natural resource management, planning, vegetation, habitat conservation, forestry, research and science, as well as industry/private sector users.

LANDFIRE is developing the future of vegetation and fuels mapping by monitoring the progress of innovative research in the field, and collaborating across agencies to develop a Next Generation LANDFIRE prototype. Lidar and high-resolution imagery, from terrestrial to aerial to spaceborne, is providing unprecedented amounts of data that could feed a new generation of 3D vegetation and fuels metrics. LANDFIRE is poised to take advantage of these data sources with high tech solutions providing faster processing and more sophisticated models.

LANDFIRE is continually improving data sources, modeling methods and outputs to better meet stakeholder needs. 

Get the latest versions of LANDFIRE data at LANDFIRE Program: Get Data.

Forest Service Principal Investigator: Inga La Puma

Principal Partners:

• USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management
• Department of the Interior, U.S. Wildland Fire Service

Project Years: 2004 - present