United States hurricane accumulated cyclone energy and its potential impacts to forest basal area and urban tree canopy

This data publication contains the data used in a study to examine potential hurricane wind threats to both rural and urban forests in the conterminous United States. This package includes continuous raster data of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) for the conterminous United States as well as continuous raster data of ACE times forest basal area, which was used to determine the potential hurricane impact on rural forests using forest basal area. Additionally included is the associated tabular data by county (FIPS code, name and state) including mean ACE, mean of ACE times forest basal area, mean of ACE times percent urban tree canopy, cumulative ACE, cumulative ACE times basal area, cumulative ACE times percent urban tree canopy, and their associated indices. index. While 2021 is the publication date, these data sets have the following vintage: 1851 to 2015.
The purpose of this study was to assess risk of hurricanes to rural and urban forests.
For more information about these data see Cole et al. (2021). Data were published on 02/10/2021. Minor metadata updates were made on 04/20/2023.