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LANDFIRE (LF) fuel products describe the composition and characteristics of surface and canopy fuel and:

  • provide consistent fuel information to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives
  • supplement strategic and tactical planning for fire operations

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

 

Data Products: Operational Roads
Check out the Operational Roads product that supports operations and firefighting.
picture of flow diagram for capable fuels

The surface and canopy fuels layers represent capable fuels, meaning they are representative of the particular type of disturbance experienced by herbaceous, shrub and tree lifeforms along with regrowth to the capable year indicated (usually the year released).

 
 

Products
Surface FuelCanopy FuelFuel Vegetation
13 Anderson Fire Behavior Fuel Models - original 13 fire behavior fuel models, represents severe fire conditions
40 Scott and Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models - fire behavior fuel model predictions beyond the severe fire season, such as prescribed fire and fire use applications
Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System - Canadian system for rating the risk of forest fires, distributed for Alaska only
Fuel Characteristic Classification System Fuelbeds - provide land managers, regulators, and scientists with a nationally consistent and durable procedure to characterize and classify fuels
Fuel Loading Models - surface fuel classification system to characterize wildland surface fuel
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
Forest Canopy Cover - proportion of the forest floor covered by the vertical projection of the tree crowns
Forest Canopy Height - average height of the top of the vegetated canopy
Forest Canopy Bulk Density - density of available canopy fuel in a stand
Forest Canopy Base Height - average height from the ground to a forest stand's canopy bottom
The following pre-disturbance vegetation allow fuel model transitions and vegetation to properly align:
Other
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
Compare Models Four spreadsheet — allows users to make quick, simple comparisons of the new fuel models
Forest Vegetation Simulator Disturbance Database — Database deliverable contains LF FVS disturbance analysis outputs for fire, insect and disease, wind and mechanical disturbances. Each disturbance type was modeled at a high, moderate, and low severity and represented at three time-steps post disturbance

Application

These data can be implemented within models to predict wildland fire behavior and effects, and are useful for strategic fuel treatment prioritization and tactical assessment of fire behavior and effects.

 

 
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