LANDFIRE Technical Documentation
A detailed description of the processes that went into the LF 2016 Remap effort and the methods for creating each LF product.
LANDFIRE Dictionary
A “one-stop shop” general resource that provides information about products, Attribute Data Dictionaries (ADDs), data and metadata, and terms.
LF Definitions, Quality, and Standards
Provides information about contributors, metadata and data standards, data creation, and data testing. This document also provides details about our general data release process.
LANDFIRE Research Review
LANDFIRE welcomes researchers to share work that incorporates LANDFIRE Program Products for a friendly, informal review—at any stage of development.
2026
- Ecological, Demographic, and Physical Characteristics of Sierra Nevada Red Foxes in the Oregon Cascades [Journal Article]
- A site prioritization tool for invasive species management: Integrating diverse spatial data to improve decision making (using the LFRDB) [Journal Article]
- Utah Wildfire Risk Assessment and High Risk WUI [Journal Article]
2025
- Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA [Journal Article]
- Quantifying the Representation of Plant Communities in the Protected Areas of the U.S.: An Analysis Based on the U.S. National Vegetation Classification Groups [Journal Article]
- Spatial Scale Dependence of Error in Fractional Component Cover Maps - ScienceDirect [Journal Article]
- An Interagency Perspective on Improving Consistency and Transparency of Land Use and Land Cover Mapping [Journal Article]
2024
- Modelling and mapping burn severity of prescribed and wildfires across the southeastern United States (2000-2022) [Journal Article]
- Connected Science: Twenty years of science and management with LANDFIRE [Publication]
- Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series: A New Foundation for LANDFIRE [Video]
2023
- A Multimodal Data Fusion and Deep Learning Framework for Large-Scale Wildfire Surface Fuel Mapping [Journal Article]
- LANDFIRE: Foundational data used to support Cohesive Strategy Goals [Video]
- Hawaii_Wildfires_LANDFIRE_Wildfire_Risk_to_Communities_2023 [Publication]
- Prototyping an improved LANDFIRE base product via state-of-the-art data preprocessing and modeling techniques [Publication]
- Longleaf Pine Sustainability Analysis Technical Report [Technical Report]
- Landsat-Scale Regional Forest Canopy Height Mapping using ICEASat-2 Along-track heights: case study of eastern texas [Journal Article]
- Using social media data and machine learning to map recreational ecosystem services [Journal Article]
- Contemporary wildfires are more severe compared to the historical reference period in western US dry conifer forests. [Application Summary]
- USGS Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Clearinghouse [Application]
- LANDFIRE and Certified Sustainable Forest Management [Application Summary]
- Regional Stem Volume Mapping: A Feasibility Assessment of Scaling Tree-Level Estimates [Journal Article]
2022
- Locating potential historical fire-maintained grasslands of the eastern United States based on topography and wind speed [Journal Article]
- TreeMap 2016 Dataset Generates CONUS-Wide Maps of Forest Characteristics Including Live Basal Area, Aboveground Carbon, and Number of Trees per Acre [Journal Article]
- Construction of Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Estimates for Individual Real Estate Parcels for the Contiguous United States [Journal Article]
- Behavioral states in space and time: understanding landscape use by an invasive mammal [Journal Article]
- Green Mountain National Forest historical fire regime assessment LANDFIRE [Application Summary]
- Climate Land Cover (LANDFIRE Derived) - Datasets - California Natural Resources Agency Open Data [Journal Article]
- LCMAP Change Stories: Sequoias under Siege, Progression of a Wildfire [Application Summary]
- Scientists use AI to update data vegetation maps for improved wildfire forecasts [Journal Article]
- Mapping the wildland-urban interface in California using remote sensing data [Journal Article]
- Impacts of Agricultural Management Systems on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Highly Simplified Dryland Landscapes [Journal Article]
- LANDFIRE Data and Applications [Fact Sheet]
- A Short Tour of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) [Journal Article]
2021
- LF & Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) - 15 Years of Growing Research and Partnerships
- New Eastern Region Wildfire Risk Assessment [Project Report]
- Development and Application of the Fireshed Registry [Project Report]
- The importance of small fires for wildfire hazard in urbanized landscapes of the northeastern US [Journal Article]
- Mapping regional forest management units: a road-based framework in Southeastern Coastal Plain and Piedmont [Journal Article]
2020
- Drought Sensitivity and Trends of Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985–2018) [Journal Article]
LF Foundational Publications:
- LF Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC) - Facilitates editing LF rule sets to create customized surface and canopy fuel layers for local applications.
- Wildfire Risk to Communities - website with interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk.
- State-and-transition simulation (ST-Sim) - Fully integrated spatially explicit simulation capabilities with the ability to include input rasters in GeoTIFF format for initial state classes, strata and ages and the ability to output rasters for these same variables as well as transitions and time since transition.
- Compare fuel models spreadsheet-Joe Scott - allows a user to make quick, simple comparisons of the new fuel models with each other and with the original 13 fuel models
- Updated - Compare fuel models spreadsheet-Joe Scott - Users can add custom fuel models to the list in the CompareModelsFour spreadsheet.
- Landscape GeoTIFF File - a multi-band raster format, is commonly used by wildland fire behavior and fire effects models such as FARSITE and FlamMap.
- LF Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC) - Facilitates editing LF rule sets to create customized surface and canopy fuel layers for local applications.
- Wildfire Risk to Communities - website with interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk.
- State-and-transition simulation (ST-Sim) - Fully integrated spatially explicit simulation capabilities with the ability to include input rasters in GeoTIFF format for initial state classes, strata and ages and the ability to output rasters for these same variables as well as transitions and time since transition.
- Compare fuel models spreadsheet-Joe Scott - allows a user to make quick, simple comparisons of the new fuel models with each other and with the original 13 fuel models
- Updated - Compare fuel models spreadsheet-Joe Scott - Users can add custom fuel models to the list in the CompareModelsFour spreadsheet.
- Landscape GeoTIFF File - a multi-band raster format, is commonly used by wildland fire behavior and fire effects models such as FARSITE and FlamMap.
- BLM - Bodie Hills Conservation Action Planning
- Data Comparison and Sensitivity Analysis in Yellowstone National Park
- LANDFIRE 2008 data in the Cowychee Mountain Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Yakima, Washington — Making Risk Assessments User-Friendly
- Modeling Alternative Scenarios of Land Cover Change and Conservation Outcomes in the Forest of the Northern Great Lakes Region Using LANDFIRE Data Products
- Modeling Grizzly Bear Density using LANDFIRE Data Products
- Upper Fraser Valley CWPP and LANDFIRE data: Northern Colorado
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Bee Pollination Study
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Bighorn Sheep Viability Analysis: Payette National Forest Area Use of LANDFIRE data in fuels program prioritization and planning: Signal Peak Assessment
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Multi‐Year Fuels Program Planning for Bureau of Indian Affairs, Spokane Agency, and Spokane Tribe – June 2008
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Wildland Fire Risk Assessment: Ashley Lakes Fire
- Use of LANDFIRE Data Products on Fire Incidents in 2007
- Use of LANDFIRE in Sage-Grouse Habitat Analysis: Western North America
- Use of LANDFIRE Vegetation Dynamics Models and FRCC* Maps to Support Ecological Assessments and Forest Plan Revisions in the Southwest Region
- Yellowstone Central Plateau Fire Behavior Assessment using LANDFIRE data products: 2007
- Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001–2010
- Beyond Fuel Treatment Effectiveness: Characterizing Interactions between Fire and Treatments in the US GeoArea
- BLM - Bodie Hills Conservation Action Planning
- Data Comparison and Sensitivity Analysis in Yellowstone National Park
- LANDFIRE 2008 data in the Cowychee Mountain Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Yakima, Washington — Making Risk Assessments User-Friendly
- Modeling Alternative Scenarios of Land Cover Change and Conservation Outcomes in the Forest of the Northern Great Lakes Region Using LANDFIRE Data Products
- Modeling Grizzly Bear Density using LANDFIRE Data Products
- Upper Fraser Valley CWPP and LANDFIRE data: Northern Colorado
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Bee Pollination Study
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Bighorn Sheep Viability Analysis: Payette National Forest Area Use of LANDFIRE data in fuels program prioritization and planning: Signal Peak Assessment
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Multi‐Year Fuels Program Planning for Bureau of Indian Affairs, Spokane Agency, and Spokane Tribe – June 2008
- Use of LANDFIRE Data in Wildland Fire Risk Assessment: Ashley Lakes Fire
- Use of LANDFIRE Data Products on Fire Incidents in 2007
- Use of LANDFIRE in Sage-Grouse Habitat Analysis: Western North America
- Use of LANDFIRE Vegetation Dynamics Models and FRCC* Maps to Support Ecological Assessments and Forest Plan Revisions in the Southwest Region
- Yellowstone Central Plateau Fire Behavior Assessment using LANDFIRE data products: 2007
- Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001–2010
- Beyond Fuel Treatment Effectiveness: Characterizing Interactions between Fire and Treatments in the US GeoArea