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Wildfire Hazard Potential, Version 2020 Continuous (Image Service)

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posted on 2024-11-23, 21:17 authored by U.S. Forest Service
Wildfire hazard potential (WHP) is an index that depicts the relative potential for wildfire that would be difficult for suppression resources to contain, based on wildfire simulation modeling. This dataset produced by the USDA Forest Service, Fire Modeling Institute in 2020 shows WHP at a spatial resolution of 270 meters across the entire conterminous United States, classified into five WHP classes of very low, low, moderate, high, and very high. Areas mapped with higher WHP values represent fuels with a higher probability of experiencing torching, crowning, and other forms of extreme fire behavior under conducive weather conditions, based primarily on 2014 landscape conditions. This WHP dataset is based on outputs of wildfire simulation modeling published in 2020.

Starting with the 2020 version, the WHP dataset is integrated with the Wildfire Risk to Communities project. The 2020 dataset is the first version to include Alaska and Hawaii. There is a spatially-refined, 30-m resolution version of the WHP as part of the downloadable Wildfire Risk to Communities data, and related datasets that depict other components of wildfire hazard and risk to homes.

This 2020 version supersedes all previous versions of Wildfire Hazard Potential (2018, 2014) or Wildland Fire Potential (2012, 2010, 2007). We generally do not advise direct comparisons between versions because changes can reflect improvements in methodology at all stages of the WHP calculation in addition to actual land cover changes.

For more information and to download the raster data, please visit the Wildfire Hazard Potential website.

Map author: Greg Dillon, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Modeling Institute

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:
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Funding

USDA-FS

History

Data contact name

USFSEnterpriseContent

Data contact email

SM.FS.data@usda.gov

Publisher

U.S. Forest Service

Theme

  • Geospatial

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • environment

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

Forestry, Wildland Management

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:96 - Forest Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:059 - Management Activities

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

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    Keywords

    GTAChazardburn probabilityForest Managementwildfire hazard potentialUnited StatesEnvironment and Peopleenvironmentfire likelihoodfire planningfire supressionpre-suppressionLandscape managementFire effects on environmentCONUSAlaskaHawaiifuels managementprescribed firefire ecologywildland fire potentialEcologyEcosystemsrisk assessmentfire modelingUS Forest ServiceOpen DataLiving Atlas

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    CC BY 4.0

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