U.S. Forest Service National Cohesive Fire Strategy Dataset Forest Prescribed Fire Potential

The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, initiated in 2009 and finalized in 2014, provides a national vision for wildland fire management. This highly collaborative effort establishes three overarching goals, and describes stakeholder-driven processes for achieving them: (1) resilient landscapes; (2) fire-adapted communities; and (3) safe and effective wildfire response. The scientific rigor of this program was ensured with the establishment of the National Science and Analysis Team (NSAT). The main tasks of NSAT were to compile credible scientific information, data, and models to help explore national challenges and opportunities, identify a range of management options, and help set national priorities for addressing key issues. The scientific products generated by the Cohesive Strategy and the NSAT can be used to understand factors contributing to wildland fire and potential effects on ecosystem services, among other applications.

This featured dataset shows forest prescribed fire potential or the percent area of county available for prescribed fire in forested landscapes.

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