WRC - 30m¶
Description¶
The Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset was created by USDA Forest Service to help assess risk to homes, businesses, and other valued resources. The dataset contains nationally-consistent information for the purpose of comparing relative wildfire risk among communities nationally or within a state or county. In situ risk (risk at the location where the adverse effects take place on the landscape) are modeled using the large fire simulation system (FSim) and LANDFIRE fuel loading datasets from 2014. The original data at 250m has been upsampled to 30m for this dataset on Climate Engine.
Climate Engine details¶
- Dataset type
- Hazards
- Climate Engine ID
- WRC
- Documentation
- https://support.climateengine.org/article/92-wrc
Dataset details¶
- Scale
- 30m
- Frequency
- Static
- Coverage
- CONUS
- Start year
- 2022
- End year
- 2022
Earth Engine collection details¶
- Earth Engine asset
- USDA/WRC/v0
- Earth Engine asset URL
- https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/wrc/?h=wildfire
- Earth Engine source catalog
- Earth Engine Catalog
Variables¶
API variable docs: #wildfire-risk-to-communities
| Name | Units |
|---|---|
| Burn Probability | probability |
| Conditional Flame Length | ft |
| Conditional Risk to Potential Structures | N/A |
| Exposure Type | N/A |
| Flame Length Exceedance Probability - 4 ft | probability |
| Flame Length Exceedance Probability - 8 ft | probability |
| Risk to Potential Structures | N/A |
| Wildfire Hazard Potential index | N/A |
References¶
- Scott, Joe H.; Gilbertson-Day, Julie W.; Moran, Christopher; Dillon, Gregory K.; Short, Karen C.; Vogler, Kevin C. 2020. Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of landscape-wide wildfire risk components for the United States. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 25 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0016 (Publication Details)
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2020-0016
Terms of use¶
These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees.