Wildfire Hazard Potential, Version 2020 Continuous (Image Service)

<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:&quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'><strong>Note:</strong> This Wildfire Hazard Potential (WHP) image service has been deprecated. Previous versions—including 2014, 2018, 2020, and 2023 continuous and classified datasets—have been replaced by a unified WHP service containing the most current data.</span></span></p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:&quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>For the updated <strong>continuous</strong> WHP service, visit: </span></span><a style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 97, 155); font-family:inherit; line-height:1.5;' target='_blank' href='https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c984aeeecfcc4bef887a3f72a5b4e65a' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'><u>https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c984aeeecfcc4bef887a3f72a5b4e65a</u></span></span></a><span style='font-family:inherit;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'> For the updated <strong>classified</strong> WHP service, visit: </span></span><a style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 97, 155); font-family:inherit; line-height:1.5; text-decoration:none;' target='_blank' href='https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=13004659506b4032bf7998038176f1c3' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=13004659506b4032bf7998038176f1c3</span></span></a></p><p><span style='color:#000000; font-family:inherit;'><font style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Wildfire hazard potential (WHP) is an index that depicts&nbsp;the relative potential for wildfire that would be difficult for suppression resources to contain, based on wildfire simulation modeling. This dataset produced by&nbsp;the USDA Forest Service, Fire Modeling Institute in 2020 shows WHP at&nbsp;</font></span><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>a spatial resolution of&nbsp;</font></span><span style='color:#000000; font-family:inherit;'><font style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>270 meters across the entire conterminous United States, classified into five&nbsp;WHP classes of very low, low, moderate, high, and very high.&nbsp;Areas mapped with higher WHP values represent fuels with a higher probability of experiencing torching, crowning, and other forms of extreme fire behavior under conducive weather conditions, based primarily on 2014 landscape conditions. This WHP dataset is based on&nbsp;</font></span><a style='color:rgb(0, 121, 193); font-family:inherit; text-decoration-line:none;' target='_blank' href='https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2016-0034-2' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><font style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>outputs of wildfire simulation modeling published in 2020</font></a><span style='color:#000000; font-family:inherit;'><font style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>.</font></span></p><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><div style='font-family:inherit;'><div style='font-family:inherit;'><div style='font-family:inherit;'><div style='font-family:inherit;'>&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><br />&nbsp;</div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'>Starting with the 2020 version, the WHP dataset is integrated with the&nbsp;</font></span><a style='color:rgb(0, 121, 193); font-family:inherit; text-decoration-line:none;' target='_blank' href='https://wildfirerisk.org/' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Wildfire Risk to Communities</a>&nbsp;<span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'>project. The 2020 dataset is the first version to include Alaska and Hawaii. There is a spatially-refined, 30-m resolution version of the WHP as part of the downloadable&nbsp;</font></span><a style='color:rgb(0, 121, 193); font-family:inherit; text-decoration-line:none;' target='_blank' href='https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Catalog/RDS-2020-0016' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Wildfire Risk to Communities data</a><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'>, and related datasets that depict other components of wildfire hazard and risk to homes.</font></span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><br />&nbsp;</div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'><strong>This 2020 version supersedes all previous versions of Wildfire Hazard Potential (2018, 2014) or Wildland Fire Potential (2012, 2010, 2007)</strong>. We generally do not advise direct comparisons between versions because changes can reflect improvements in methodology at all stages of the WHP calculation in addition to actual land cover changes.</font></span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><br />&nbsp;</div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'>For more information and to download the raster data, please visit the&nbsp;</font></span><a style='color:rgb(0, 121, 193); font-family:inherit; text-decoration-line:none;' target='_blank' href='https://www.firelab.org/project/wildfire-hazard-potential' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Wildfire Hazard Potential website</a><span style='color:#000000;'><font style='font-family:inherit;'>.</font></span></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><br />&nbsp;</div><p><span style='color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Map author: Greg Dillon, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Modeling Institute</span></p>

Tags: alaska, burn-probability, conus, ecology, ecosystems, environment, environment-and-people, fire-ecology, fire-effects-on-environment, fire-likelihood, fire-modeling, fire-planning, fire-supression, forest-management, fuels-management, gtac, hawaii, hazard, landscape-management, living-atlas, open-data, pre-suppression, prescribed-fire, risk-assessment, united-states, us-forest-service, wildfire-hazard-potential, wildland-fire-potential
Organization: Department of Agriculture