The LANDFIRE project is a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research and development activity designed to develop a consistent and accurate methodology capable of producing geospatial data of vegetation conditions, fire fuels, risks, and ecosystem status at the national, regional, and local scales for implementation of the National Fire Plan. A LANDFIRE Information Bulletin series is used by the project to communicate project progress to the general public.
About LANDFIRE and the Rapid Assessment LANDFIRE is a wildland fire, ecosystem, and fuel assessment-mapping project designed to generate consistent, comprehensive, landscape-scale maps of vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics for the United States. It responds to agency and partner needs for data to support fire management planning, prioritization of fuel treatments, collaboration, community and firefighter protection and effective resource allocation. It is a collaborative $40 million 5-year partnership between the USDA Forest Service, Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. LANDFIRE includes a Rapid Assessment, which will map and model Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC, see www.frcc.gov) at a broad-scale resolution for the entire United States by the summer of 2005. The Rapid Assessment is designed to fill data needs before the entire suite of LANDFIRE products is available and to help refine reference vegetation dynamics models for the LANDFIRE project.
