Wildland Urban Interface: 2020 (Map Service)
dataset
posted on 2024-10-01, 13:06 authored by U.S. Forest ServiceThe Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001) for the conterminous United States from 1990-2020. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels. Data are available as a geodatabase and include information such as housing densities for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020; wildland vegetation percentages for 1992, 2001, 2011, and 2019; as well as WUI classes in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.This WUI feature class is separate from the WUI datasets maintained by individual forest unites, and it is not the authoritative source data of WUI for forest units. This dataset shows change over time in the WUI data up to 2020.
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:
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
USFSEnterpriseContentData contact email
SM.FS.data@usda.govPublisher
U.S. Forest ServiceTheme
- Geospatial
Geographic location - description
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- environment
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
Forestry, Wildland ManagementOMB Bureau Code
- 005:96 - Forest Service
OMB Program Code
- 005:059 - Management Activities
Pending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public
