What is "landfire"

The LANDFIRE Program produces geo-spatial products and databases covering the United States of America. It is also known as “Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools." LANDFIRE is a partnership between the United States Department of Interior, the United States Forest Service and the Nature Conservancy that began officially in 2001. The purpose of LANDFIRE is to create a nationally complete, comprehensive, and consistent set of products that support fire and natural resource management organizations and applications.

LANDFIRE spatial products were designed for use at very large landscape, state, regional or national scales. LANDFIRE Program products have been used in a variety of ways, from supporting large federal wildland fire-related applications such as the Wildland Fire Decision Support System, the Cohesive Strategy initiative, and the Fire Program Analysis Program, to landscape-level conservation planning, regional wildlife studies, ecosystem services, biofuels, and national carbon stock and biomass assessments. The LANDFIRE Program and the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Gateway and Web-Hosted Applications Map websites list and describe a variety of applications of LANDFIRE products.