The Fireshed Registry: Fireshed and subfireshed boundaries for the continental United States and Hawaii (4th Edition)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) US Department of Agriculture; US Forest Service

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US Department of Agriculture, and US Forest Service. The Fireshed Registry: Fireshed and subfireshed boundaries for the continental United States and Hawaii (4th Edition). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-05-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E248779V1

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Project Title:  View help for Project Title The Fireshed Registry: Fireshed and subfireshed boundaries for the continental United States and Hawaii (4th Edition)
Summary:  View help for Summary The Fireshed Registry is a geospatial dashboard and decision tool built to organize information about wildfire transmission to communities and monitor progress towards risk reduction for communities from management investments. The concept behind the Fireshed Registry is to identify and map the source of risk rather than what is at risk across all lands in the continental United States and Hawaii. While the Fireshed Registry was organized around mapping the source of fire risk to communities, the framework does not preclude the assessment of other resource management priorities and trends such as water, fish and aquatic or wildlife habitat, or recreation. The Fireshed Registry is also a multi-scale decision tool for quantifying, prioritizing, and geospatially displaying wildfire transmission to buildings in adjacent or nearby communities. Fireshed areas in the Fireshed Registry are approximately 250,000-acre accounting units that are delineated based on smoothed building exposure maps of the continental United States and Hawaii. These boundaries were created by dividing up the landscape into regular-sized units that represent similar source levels of community exposure to wildfire risk. Subfiresheds are approximately 25,000-acre accounting units nested within firesheds. This data publication includes three separate geodatabases, one for the conterminous United States (CONUS), one for Alaska, and one for Hawaii. All three geodatabases contain both firesheds and subfiresheds. See metadata for the individual geodatabases and feature classes for more details.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2020-0054-4

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms geoscientificInformation; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Wildland/urban interface; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; wildfire; wildfire exposure; wildfire transmission; wildfire management; United States
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Alaska
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2014 – 2018
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0054-4 Authors: Evers, Cody R. ; Ringo, Chris D. ; Ager, Alan A. ; Day, Michelle A. ; Alcasena Urdíroz, Fermin J. ; Bunzel, Ken Publication year: 2025 (Downloaded 2026-05-30)


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