Conterminous United States urban forest threats to 2060

Numerous threats to urban forests are assessed for the conterminous United States, including projected changes in urban tree cover, air temperatures, precipitation, aridity, sea level rise, wildfires, and flooding, as well as threats from hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and insects and diseases. All potential threats were integrated into a cumulative threat index to illustrate which areas of the United States will likely face the greatest overall threat to their urban forests from 2010 through 2060. These data support the 2010 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment cycle.
By understanding local urban forest threats, management plans and policies can be enacted to help mitigate the impacts of and adapt to future threats to sustain healthy urban forests and associated benefits.
These data were published on 05/19/2022. On 07/21/2022 the metadata was updated to include reference to newly published article. Minor metadata updates were made on 04/20/2023. These data were collected and analyzed to provide content for Nowak et al. (2022).