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LANDFIRE is pleased to announce the release of LF 2025 Vegetation, Fuel, and Preliminary Annual Disturbance products for the NW GeoArea (GA) of the Conterminous United States (CONUS). The other CONUS GeoAreas will release in the fall, completing the CONUS extent. Additionally, the Summer Seasonal Fuels product for the Northern, Northern Great Basin, and SW regions has been released.
LANDFIRE has released LF 2025 Vegetation, Fuel, and Preliminary Annual Disturbance products for AK. Additionally, the Spring Seasonal Fuel product for the SW and Northern Great Basin regions has also been released. The remaining AK products will release in the fall of 2026.
LANDFIRE is pleased to announce the release of Vegetation, Fuel, and Preliminary Annual Disturbance products for the SW GeoArea of the Conterminous United States (CONUS). Products for the NW GeoArea will release in June, followed by the other GeoAreas to complete the CONUS extent later in the fall.
The Early Spring Seasonal Fuels FBFM40 product for the LF 2025 Update has been released for the Southwest region. Spring Seasonal Fuels for the SW and Northern Great Basin regions will follow in May.
LANDFIRE’s 2025 Update has arrived with the release of the Limited Annual Disturbance (LDist) 2025 products for all extents.
Historical Disturbance (HDist) has been retired for all versions. It is still available by special request via Help Desk.
LANDFIRE is updating product file naming conventions throughout the month of January. The unicode (3-digit identifier) previously used in LANDFIRE product names will be removed; products will now be named using only the version, product name, and extent (example: LF2024_EVT_CONUS). For more information on naming conventions, visit the LANDFIRE Naming Conventions page.
LANDFIRE has released the final data sets for the LF 2024 Update (LF 2024), including Vegetation, Fuel, and Disturbance products for Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The final products for Alaska (SClass, VCC, and VDep) have also been released.
As LANDFIRE prepares for an overhaul of naming conventions, some versions and data have been retired or are temporarily unavailable. MoD-FIS products have been temporarily removed and will be available again in the early spring. LF 2001 and LF 2020 have been retired but are still available by request or in the USGS ScienceBase library. The following LF 2020 products will remain available across all distribution platforms: BPS, Topographic product suite, and all LF 2020 applicable Annual Disturbance years.
LANDFIRE (LF) has released LF 2024 Update (LF 2024) NC, SC, NE, and SE fuels, vegetation, and Historical Disturbance products. Additionally, the SW and NW GeoAreas have also been updated. We highly encourage everyone to re-download all fuel products for any GeoArea within CONUS as new events have been incorporated (insect and disease) since the SW and NW releases. This completes the full Conterminous United States (CONUS) for the LF 2024 Update.
Seasonally adjusted FBFM40 for Fall MoD-FIS has also been released.
The last products for LF 2024, within the areas Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, will release in November.