posted on 2024-10-01, 13:01authored byU.S. Forest Service
The 2023 Wildland Hazard Potential (WHP) represents areas of significant fuel buildup. The WHP is a raster geospatial product produced by the USFS Fire Modeling Institute in the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Program. Higher values have a higher probability of high-intensity fire, with torching, crowning, and other forms of extreme fire behavior. Data used represent areas classified as “high” or “very high” risk. The LANDFIRE Fire Regime Groups (FRG) raster dataset (LC16_BPS_200) was used to identify moderate fire regimes (Regime groups I and II). Fire regime groups represent expected historical fire regimes based on interactions between vegetation dynamics, fire spread, fire effects, and spatial context. The definitions of the regimes are outlined in the Interagency Fire Regime Condition Class Guidebook. The data for this indicator represent areas identified as having “moderate”, “high”, or “very high” wildland hazard potential within fire regime groups I and II. Wildfire hazard potential, version 2023, 4th Edition. https://www.firelab.org/project/wildfire-hazard-potential (October 2, 2023)
This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: