The Fireshed Registry: Fireshed and subfireshed boundaries for the continental United States and Alaska (3rd Edition)

Project Title:  View help for Project Title The Fireshed Registry: Fireshed and subfireshed boundaries for the continental United States and Alaska (3rd 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 (CONUS) and Alaska. 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 Alaska. 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 two separate geodatabases, one for CONUS and one for Alaska, both geodatabases containing both firesheds and subfiresheds: boundaries, size, total annual number of buildings inside and outside of the area exposed by wildfires ignited within the area (based on 2014 fuels conditions), and percent of the area that has been disturbed since 2014 (2015-2018). 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-2020-0054-3

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-2020-0054-3 Authors: Evers, Cody R. ; Ringo, Chris D. ; Ager, Alan A. ; Day, Michelle A. ; Alcasena Urdíroz, Fermin J. ; Bunzel, Ken Publication year: 2024 (Downloaded 2026-05-30)