Public LFRDB

Public LANDFIRE
Reference Database
A public version of the LANDFIRE (LF) Reference Database (LFRDB) is available which contains a subset of the data and attributes used for LF production. The Public LFRDB includes vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide. The data were largely amassed from existing information resources such as:

USFS Vegetation Data
USGS National Gap Analysis Program
NPS Vegetation Characterization Program

Data archived in the Public LFRDB include:

Vegetation

Fuel

natural community occurrences

estimates of canopy cover and height per plant taxon

occurrence of exotics plants

biomass estimates of downed woody material

percentage cover and height of shrub and herb layers

canopy base height estimates

Major Public LFRDB attributes derived from the sampling data include:

existing and potential vegetation in NatureServe's Ecological Systems units
lifeform cover and height
canopy fuel metrics (e.g. bulk density) from FuelCalc

Certain proprietary and/or sensitive data were removed in the public database. Consult the table lutVisitsSourceID in the database regarding data sources.

The Public LFRDB can be used as input to spatial and non-spatial vegetation models and is applicable for ground truthing and accuracy assessments for a variety of modeling and mapping efforts.

New and Improved LF Auto-Keys: LF is gearing up for LF remap - learn about the redesign of the Auto-Keys process, which is used to determine existing vegetation type classification based on plot data in the LFRDB — Developing Auto-Keys for LANDFIRE Vegetation Mapping: 2014-2015 CONUS Project Report

LFRDB EVT Assignment Evaluation

Attribute Data Dictionary PDF

Data Distribution Site