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LANDFIRE alerts pertaining to news of data releases (green), data updates (gray), and errors or warnings (red). See below for more information on each individual item and LANDFIRE’s guidance on how to proceed.
Active Alerts
2026-05-18 Data Release: 2025 Spring Seasonal Fuels and AK Vegetation, Fuel, and Preliminary Annual Disturbance
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.
2026-04-30 Data Release: 2025 SW Vegetation, Fuel, and Preliminary Annual Disturbance
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.
2026-04-15 Data Release: Early Spring Seasonal Fuels FBFM40 product for the LF 2025 Update is available.
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.
2026-01-28 Data Release: 2025 Limited Disturbance Products are now available.
LANDFIRE’s 2025 Update has arrived with the release of the Limited Annual Disturbance (LDist) 2025 products for all extents.
2026-01-28 Data Update: Historical Disturbance products retired.
Historical Disturbance (HDist) has been retired for all versions. It is still available by special request via Help Desk.
2026-01-15 Data Update: LANDFIRE Updates to Product Naming Conventions
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.
2025-12-11 Data Release: 2024 HI and PRVI Vegetation, Fuel, and Disturbance Products; 2024 AK and HI SClass, VCC, and VDep
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.
2025-12-11 Data Update: Updates to MoD-FIS, LF 2001, and LF 2020 availability
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.
2025-09-30 Data Release: 2024 Full Extent CONUS products and FBFM40 Fall MoD-FIS now available
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.
Milestones
2025 LF 2024 Update Completed
2024 LF 2023 Update Completed
2023 LF 2022 Update Completed
2022 LF 2020 Update Completed
2021 LF 2019L Released
2021 LF 2016 Remap Completed
2020 LFRDB - Over 1 Million Plots!
2019 LF 2016 Remap First Release
2017 LF 2016 Remap Begins
2017 LF 2014 Update Completed
2015 LF 2012 Update Completed
2015 LF 2014 Update Begins
2014 LF Remap Planning Begins
2014 LF 2010 Completed
2013 LF 2012 Update Begins
2011 LF 2010 Update Begins
2011 LF 2001 / LF 2008 Updates Completed
2010 LF Improvements Completed
2010 Gen MGMT Evaluation and Futures Forum Completed
2009 LF National Project Completed and LF Program Initiated
2009 LF Improvements, LF 2001, and LF 2008 Updates Begin
2009 LF National (AK/HI) Completed
2008 Rapid Refresh Completed
2005 Rapid Assessment FRCC (CONUS) Completed
2005 Prototype Completed
2004 Rapid Assessment Begins
2004 The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) Chartered
2002 Protype Begins in Utah, Idaho, and Montana
Keeping Up with LANDFIRE
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January 28 – Coordinating Smoke Management: Insights from Albany, Georgia’s Pilot Project
Speaker: Holly Nowell, PhD, Smoke Science Program Director, Tall Timbers
Partner Organization: Tall Timbers
Recording link: https://youtu.be/2aA8TXirlpk
February 25 - Contrasting LANDFIRE with Fractional Vegetation Cover Data (RCMAP and RAP)
Speaker: Matt Rigge, Ecologist, USGS EROS & Sara McCord, RAP Lead, Research Ecologist, ARS
Partner Organization: EROS
Recording link: https://youtu.be/1pnzh_cfw_8
March 25 – Fire Needs Assessment 101: Connect Historical Ecosystems, Vegetation, and Fire Regimes
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Senior Spatial Ecologist, TNC, LANDFIRE
Partner Organization: The Nature Conservancy
Recording link: https://youtu.be/iq9Eau3gHiU
April 29 - From Data to Decisions: What's New with Wildfire Risk to Communities
Speakers: Kelly Pohl, Associate Director, Headwaters Economics
Greg Dillon, Director of the Fire Modeling Institute, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: Headwaters Economics
May 27 - EcoMap 2025 - An update to the Forest Service's National Hierarchy of Ecological Units
Speakers: Sarah Anderson, Ecologist, USDA Service; Joanne Baggs, Landscape Ecologist, USDA Forest Service; Estella Smith, Geospatial Ecosystem Specialist, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: USDA Forest Service
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June 24 - Fire Regimes, BpS, and Decision Support with LANDFIRE
Speakers: Rua Mordecai, Coordinator, Southeast Conservation Blueprint, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; & Cara Joos, Natural Resources GIS Programmer/Analyst, U.S. Forest Service Contractor, Pacific Planning Services Group
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August 26 - TBD
Speakers: Russell Parsons, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory; Sam Hillman, Senior Applied Fire Scientist – Fuel Assessment, Policy and Planning, Forest, Fire and Regions, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria State Government, Australia; Mark A. Finney, Ph.D., Research Forester, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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September 30 - LANDFIRE Compared: Synergies with various Ecosystem Classification Systems
Speaker: Ayn Hunt, PhD, Oregon State University
Partner Organization: Forest Landscapes Program - Institute for Natural Resources
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October 28 - TBD
Speaker: Greg Dillon, Director, Fire Modeling Institute, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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December 2 - LANDFIRE Fuels Process
Speaker: Ryan McCliment, LANDFIRE Fire Behavior Specialist, TSSC
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Registration link for all 2026 Office Hours: https://tnc.zoom.us/meeting/register/8g82Cz9jTb6H-oRjgL6F9A
January 28 – Coordinating Smoke Management: Insights from Albany, Georgia’s Pilot Project
Speaker: Holly Nowell, PhD, Smoke Science Program Director, Tall Timbers
Partner Organization: Tall Timbers
Recording link: https://youtu.be/2aA8TXirlpk
February 25 - Contrasting LANDFIRE with Fractional Vegetation Cover Data (RCMAP and RAP)
Speaker: Matt Rigge, Ecologist, USGS EROS & Sara McCord, RAP Lead, Research Ecologist, ARS
Partner Organization: EROS
Recording link: https://youtu.be/1pnzh_cfw_8
March 25 – Fire Needs Assessment 101: Connect Historical Ecosystems, Vegetation, and Fire Regimes
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Senior Spatial Ecologist, TNC, LANDFIRE
Partner Organization: The Nature Conservancy
Recording link: https://youtu.be/iq9Eau3gHiU
April 29 - From Data to Decisions: What's New with Wildfire Risk to Communities
Speakers: Kelly Pohl, Associate Director, Headwaters Economics
Greg Dillon, Director of the Fire Modeling Institute, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: Headwaters Economics
May 27 - EcoMap 2025 - An update to the Forest Service's National Hierarchy of Ecological Units
Speakers: Sarah Anderson, Ecologist, USDA Service; Joanne Baggs, Landscape Ecologist, USDA Forest Service; Estella Smith, Geospatial Ecosystem Specialist, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: USDA Forest Service
Recording Link:
June 24 - Fire Regimes, BpS, and Decision Support with LANDFIRE
Speakers: Rua Mordecai, Coordinator, Southeast Conservation Blueprint, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; & Cara Joos, Natural Resources GIS Programmer/Analyst, U.S. Forest Service Contractor, Pacific Planning Services Group
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July 29 -
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August 26 - TBD
Speakers: Russell Parsons, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory; Sam Hillman, Senior Applied Fire Scientist – Fuel Assessment, Policy and Planning, Forest, Fire and Regions, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria State Government, Australia; Mark A. Finney, Ph.D., Research Forester, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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September 30 - LANDFIRE Compared: Synergies with various Ecosystem Classification Systems
Speaker: Ayn Hunt, PhD, Oregon State University
Partner Organization: Forest Landscapes Program - Institute for Natural Resources
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October 28 - TBD
Speaker: Greg Dillon, Director, Fire Modeling Institute, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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December 2 - LANDFIRE Fuels Process
Speaker: Ryan McCliment, LANDFIRE Fire Behavior Specialist, TSSC
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Using LANDFIRE Data
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Learn the steps, data, and tools for evaluating ecological fire needs with LANDFIRE.
Landsat at Work: Satellites Help Extinguish Wildfire Risk
The New Age of LANDFIRE Story Map
Navigating the Future of Prescribed Fire: Workshop Insights & the Essential Role of LANDFIRE
Historical Fire Regimes in Missouri: Building LANDFIRE Awareness - One Workshop at a Time
Fire Regimes in the Great Basin-A Story Map
LANDFIRE products inform community-driven mitigation in Park County, MT & Kittitas County, WA
Landsat at Work: Satellites Help Extinguish Wildfire Risk
The New Age of LANDFIRE Story Map
Navigating the Future of Prescribed Fire: Workshop Insights & the Essential Role of LANDFIRE
Historical Fire Regimes in Missouri: Building LANDFIRE Awareness - One Workshop at a Time
Fire Regimes in the Great Basin-A Story Map
LANDFIRE products inform community-driven mitigation in Park County, MT & Kittitas County, WA
Ready-Made Maps and Graphics
LANDFIRE users can download zip files of ready-to-go maps and graphics featuring LANDFIRE data here.
CONUS
- LF 2016 Remap EVC, EVH, EVT, F13, and F40
- LF 2022 EVT by Subclasses
- LF 2023 FCCS Fuelbeds
- LF 2023 SClass, and VCC
- NW Disturbance 2017-2022
- SE Disturbance 2017-2022
Alaska
- LF 2016 Remap EVC, EVH, EVT, F13, and F40
- LF 2023 BPS
- LF 2023 EVT by Subclasses
- LF 2023 FCCS Fuelbeds
- LF 2023 SClass, and VCC
Hawaii
- LF 2016 Remap EVC, EVH, EVT, F13, and F40
- LF 2023 EVT by Subclasses
- LF 2023 SClass, and VCC
Insular Areas
- LF 2016 Remap EVT: various islands
Multiple Extents
- EVT: AK, HI, CONUS, IA
- EVH: AK, HI, CONUS, IA
- EVC: AK, HI, CONUS, IA
- BpS: AK, HI, CONUS
- VDEP: AK, HI, CONUS
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