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 2016 (LF 2.0.0) production is available and includes up to three feature classes for each geographic area:

Raw Events	natural disturbance and vegetation/fuel treatment data 1999-2016	README
Model Ready Events
Exotics	occurrence of exotic or invasive plant species 1999-2016

The Public Events Geodatabase includes contributions from:

federal     state    local    private organizations

Certain proprietary and/or sensitive data were removed in the public geodatabase. A table for the source code (lutSource_Code), which is an attribute in all three feature classes, is available for download. Consult the table "lutSource_Code" for more information about the data sources.

Refer to Disturbance Data Processing to learn how LF evaluates and processes the Public Events Geodatabase.

The Public Events Geodatabase is used to determine disturbance causality in LF products and can be used in change detection analysis.

Public Events Attribute Data Dictionary
Public Exotics Attribute Data Dictionary

For more information contact:
Brenda Lundberg
LANDFIRE Reference Data Administrator
blundberg@contractor.usgs.gov