LANDFIRE Program · USDA Forest Service & DOI Wildland Fire Service
The LANDFIRE Dependency Web
Inputs are grouped by data theme, not by which product they feed, because most inputs feed several LANDFIRE spatial data layers at once. Base layers inform derived products, which in turn support many different dependency themes.
Remote Sensing & Topo/Transport
Field & Plot Data / Vegetation
Disturbance & Treatment Records
Ancillary Program Data
Fuels & Fire Behavior
Fire Regime & Landscape Condition
Hover or tab to any box to trace its full path
Input Themes
LANDFIRE Production
Dependency Themes
Remote Sensing & Imagery
- Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) seasonal composites + 10-yr & seasonal NDVI {USGS}
- Lidar {3DEP, OpenTopography, G-LiHT, NOAA, state sources}
Field & Plot Data
- Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) {USDA FS}
- National Resource Inventory (NRI) {USDA NRCS}
- Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) {DOI BLM}
- FEAT FIREMON Integrated (FFI) {DOI and USDA FS}
- Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) {DOI NPS}
- Continuous Forest Inventory (CFI) {DOI BIA}
- NEON {NSF}
- VegBank {ESA Veg Panel and NCEAS}
- State and nonprofit vegetation plots
Disturbance & Treatment Records
Raster
- MTBS · BARC · RAVG {USDA FS & DOI USWFS}
- Landsat Burned Area {USGS}
Polygon
- FACTS {USDA FS}
- IFPRS / NFPORS {DOI USWFS}
- NIFC-NIFS, IRWIN, WFIGS, InFORM {USDA FS & DOI USWFS}
- State and nonprofit disturbance and treatment polygons
Ancillary Program Data
- National Land Cover Database (NLCD) land cover, impervious, developed & pasture/hay {USGS}
- Cropland Data Layer (CDL) {USDA NASS}
- PAD-US ownership {USGS}
- GEDI canopy height {NASA}
- LANID-US irrigation dataset {University of Oklahoma}
- Building Footprints {Microsoft & USGS}
- HERE roads {DHS / HIFLD}
- gSSURGO soils {USDA NRCS}
- POLARIS soils {USGS}
- PRISM climate {Oregon State}
- DayMet weather {NASA}
- Ecoregions {EPA}
- Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) {North Carolina State}
How to read this diagram
1Input themes — data LANDFIRE ingests, grouped by the nature of the data rather than by which layer it feeds.
2LANDFIRE production — base layers on top; below the arrows, the derived layers they inform.
3Dependency themes — programs, tools and plans that consume LANDFIRE layers.
Each line is colored by its source box. In the interactive version, hovering or keyboard-focusing a box traces its full path across all three columns; a text description of every connection is in Scope & notes.
Dots in a derived-layer heading show which base layers feed it.
Scope & notes
Tools and programs shown are representative, not exhaustive. Lines are drawn at the theme level; not every individual product-to-tool link is depicted.
All acronyms used in this diagram are defined in the companion reference: landfire_acronyms.html (PDF version also available).
Text description of all connections
The coloured lines in the diagram are described here in text. Each row lists a box and the boxes it feeds.
| Source | Feeds into |
|---|---|
| Remote Sensing & Imagery | Vegetation; Disturbance; Topographic & Transportation; Fuels & Fire Behavior |
| Field & Plot Data | Vegetation; Fuels & Fire Behavior |
| Disturbance & Treatment Records | Disturbance; Vegetation; Fuels & Fire Behavior |
| Ancillary Program Data | Vegetation; Disturbance; Topographic & Transportation; Fuels & Fire Behavior |
| Vegetation | Conservation & Habitat; Forestry & Timber; Federal, State & Community Planning; Infrastructure & Utilities |
| Disturbance | Forestry & Timber; Fire Behavior & Operations |
| Topographic & Transportation | Infrastructure & Utilities; Fire Behavior & Operations; Wildfire Risk Assessment |
| Fuels & Fire Behavior | Fire Behavior & Operations; Smoke & Emissions; Federal, State & Community Planning; Wildfire Risk Assessment |
| Fire Regime & Landscape Condition | Fire Behavior & Operations; Federal, State & Community Planning; Conservation & Habitat; Wildfire Risk Assessment |
Vegetation
- Existing Vegetation Type (EVT-ES/EVT-NVC)
- Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC)
- Existing Vegetation Height (EVH)
- Biophysical Settings (BpS)
Disturbance
- Annual Disturbance, reported + remotely sensed
Topographic & Transportation
- Elevation {processed from USGS 3DEP}
- Slope (% & degrees)
- Aspect
- Operational Roads {pulled from NLCD impervious surface}
↓↓↓ base layers inform ↓↓↓
Fuels & Fire Behavior
- 40 & 13 Fire Behavior Fuel Models
- Canopy Cover (CC)
- Canopy Height (CH)
- Canopy Base Height (CBH)
- Canopy Bulk Density (CBD)
- FCCS fuelbeds
- Seasonal fuel model adjustments
Fire Regime & Landscape Condition
- Succession Class (SClass)
- Vegetation Departure Index (VDep)
- Vegetation Condition Class (VCC)
- Fire Regime Group (FRG)
- Fire Return Interval (FRI)
- % Replacement / Mixed / Low Severity Fire
Fire Behavior & Operations
- WFDSS · FlamMap · FSPro · FARSITE · FSim · WindNinja
- Wildland fire operations
- IFTDSS — fuel treatment planning
- Suppression Difficulty Index (SDI) · Potential Operational Delineations (PODs)
- TreeMap · Snag Hazard · FastFuels
Wildfire Risk Assessment
- Federal, regional, state and local wildland fire risk assessments
- Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
- Firewise USA & Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG)
- Insurance industry underwriting / property risk models
Smoke & Emissions
- Consume — fuel consumption / emissions models
- BlueSky smoke modeling framework
- VSmoke
- EPA National Emissions Inventory
- State & regional air-quality / smoke-management programs
Conservation & Habitat
- Fish and game conservation & restoration prioritization
- Species-distribution & habitat modeling
- Ecological condition & fire-adapted ecosystem restoration
Forestry & Timber
- Tribal forest management
- Federal, state and private forestry and health programs
- Biomass utilization programs
- National Forest Plan Revisions
- Agency Resource Management Plans
Federal, State & Community Planning
- State Forest Action Plans
- NEPA compliance & environmental consulting
- Watershed Condition Framework
- Terrestrial Condition Assessment (TCA)
- County emergency management plans
- Land management plans
- Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management (IFMAT)
- Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment
Infrastructure & Utilities
- Utility vegetation management along transmission corridors
- Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) mapping
- Incident access/egress & operational logistics
Research & Science — 3,000+ supporting publications draw on nearly every layer shown above, from base vegetation and disturbance mapping through fuels, fire regime, and every dependency theme.