USA Federal Lands

Retirement Notice: This item is in [mature support] as of April 2026 and will be retired in December 2027. A [new version of this item] is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version. In the United States, the federal government manages approximately 28% of the land in the United States. Most federal lands are west of the Mississippi River, where almost half of the land by area is managed by the federal government. Federal lands include 193 million acres managed by the US Forest Service in 154 National Forests and 20 National Grasslands, Bureau of Land Management lands that cover 247 million acres in Alaska and the Western United States, 150 million acres managed for wildlife conservation by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, 84 million acres of National Parks and other lands managed by the National Park Service, and over 30 million acres managed by the Department of Defense. The Bureau of Reclamation manages a much smaller land base than the other agencies included in this layer but plays a critical role in managing the country's water resources. The agencies included in this layer are: * [Bureau of Land Management] * [Department of Defense] * [National Park Service] * [US Fish and Wildlife Service] * [US Forest Service] Dataset Summary Phenomenon Mapped: United States federal lands managed by six federal agencies Geographic Extent: 50 United States and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands. The layer also includes National Monuments and Wildlife Refuges in the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea. Data Coordinate System: WGS 1984 Visible Scale: The data is visible at all scales but draws best at scales greater than 1:2,000,000 Source: BLM, DOD, USFS, USFWS, NPS, PADUS 3.0 Publication Date: Various - Esri compiled and published this layer in May 2025. See individual agency views for data vintage. There are six layer views available that were created from this service. Each layer uses a filter to extract an individual agency from the service. For more information about the layer views or how to use them in your own project, follow these links: * [USA Bureau of Land Management Lands] * [USA Department of Defense Lands] * [USA National Park Service Lands] * [USA Fish and Wildlife Service Lands] * [USA Forest Service Lands] What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the [ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World] in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. In both ArcGIS Online and Pro you can change the layer's symbology and view its attribute table. You can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button in Online or a definition query in Pro. The data can be exported to a file geodatabase, a shapefile or other format and downloaded using the [Export Data] button on the top right of this webpage. This layer can be used as an analytic input in both Online and Pro through the Perform Analysis window Online or as an input to a geoprocessing tool, model, or Python script in Pro. Questions? Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.