Landfire Mosaics LF¶

LANDFIRE (LF), Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, U.S. Department of the Interior's Geological Survey, and The Nature Conservancy.

LANDFIRE (LF) layers are created using predictive landscape models based on extensive field-referenced data, satellite imagery and biophysical gradient layers using classification and regression trees. You can read about the Landfire 2023 updates here

LANDFIRE 2023 Update¶

The LANDFIRE 2023 Update (LF 2023) represents the final step in the ongoing goal to move towards annual updates and reduced latency. Similar to the LF 2022 Update, in LF 2023, disturbances from the previous year are represented in current year products. This means the LANDFIRE team has improved production efficiencies and can turn around disturbances faster than ever, providing the newest data faster to users.

LF 2023 Products and Descriptions¶

Improvements Featured in the LF 2023 Update¶

New Disturbance Products in LF 2023¶

To provide sooner delivery of LANDFIRE Annual Disturbance data and ensure a more complete record, LANDFIRE now distributes three Annual Disturbance Products, Limited, Preliminary and Final.

New Vegetation Modeling Approach¶

For LF 2023, LANDFIRE maps the lifeform, cover, and height of existing vegetation in areas that have been mapped as disturbed over the last twenty years using machine learning methods. This is a change from previous updates that relied on millions of rulesets developed from local and national experts.

Currently included layers are

Earth Engine Snippet: Disturbance 2.4.0¶

// LANDFIRE Disturbance Layers
var dist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/DISTURBANCE/DIST");
var hdist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/DISTURBANCE/HDIST");
var ldist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/DISTURBANCE/LDIST");
var pdist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/DISTURBANCE/PDIST");

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-DISTURBANCE

Earth Engine Snippet: Annual Disturbance 2.4.0¶

The LANDFIRE Annual Disturbance collection provides a continuous record of landscape disturbance across CONUS from 1999 to the present. Each image in this collection represents disturbance detected for a specific calendar year and is named using the convention LF{release_year}_Dist{disturbance_year}_CONUS, where release_year is the two-digit year of the LANDFIRE product release and disturbance_year is the two-digit year the disturbance was mapped. For example, LF2001_Dist99_CONUS captures disturbances from 1999, released as part of the LF 2001 product. A single LF release may bundle multiple disturbance years — for instance, the LF 2001 release includes annual disturbance rasters spanning 1999 through 2007. This means the LF release year and the disturbance year encoded in the filename are independent: users should refer to the disturbance_year portion of the filename to identify which year's landscape changes are represented.

// LANDFIRE Annual Disturbance Collection (1999–present)
var annualDist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/ANNUAL-DIST");

// Example: filter to a specific disturbance year using the system:index property
var dist2020 = annualDist.filter(ee.Filter.stringContains('system:index', 'Dist20'));

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-ANNUAL-DISTURBANCE

Earth Engine Snippet FIRE REGIME: v2.4.0¶

// LANDFIRE Fire Regime Collections
var frg = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FIRE-REGIME/FRG");
var fri = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FIRE-REGIME/FRI");
var pfs = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FIRE-REGIME/PFS");

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-FIRE-REGIME

Earth Engine Snippet: Fuel 2.4.0¶

// Landfire FUEL Layers
var cbd = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/CBD");
var cbh = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/CBH");
var cc = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/CC");
var cffdrs = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/CFFDRS");
var ch = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/CH");
var fbfm13 = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FBFM13");
var fbfm40 = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FBFM40");
var fccs = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FCCS");
var fdist = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FDIST");
var fvc = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FVC");
var fvh = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FVH");
var fvt = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/FVT");
var roads = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/FUEL/ROADS");

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-FUEL

Earth Engine Snippet: Vegetation 2.4.0¶

// LANDFIRE Vegetation Collections
var bps = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/BPS");
var evc = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/EVC");
var evh = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/EVH");
var evt = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/EVT");
var sclass = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/SCLASS");
var vcc = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/VCC");
var vdep = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/VEGETATION/VDEP");

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-VEGETATION

Earth Engine Snippet: Topography 2.3.0¶

// LANDFIRE Vegetation Collections
var slpp = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/TOPOGRAPHY/SLPP");
var slpd = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/TOPOGRAPHY/SLPD");
var elev = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/TOPOGRAPHY/ELEV");
var asp = ee.ImageCollection("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landfire/TOPOGRAPHY/ASP");

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:agriculture-vegetation-forestry/LANDFIRE-VEGETATION

Resolution: approx 30m

Citation¶

LANDFIRE spatial data products

Homepage title: Data product.(Last update). Agency. [Online].Available: URL [Access date].

LANDFIRE: LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type layer.(2013, June - last update). U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey.[Online]. Available: http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov/viewer/ [2013,May 8].

License¶

LANDFIRE data are public domain data with no use restrictions, though if modifications or derivatives of the product(s) are created, then please add some descriptive modifier to the data set to avoid confusion.

Curated in GEE by: Samapriya Roy

Keywords: doi, fire, landfire, nature-conservancy, usda, usgs, vegetation, wildfire

Last updated: 2026-03-27

Changelog¶

• 2026-03-27 Added Annual Disturbance collection (ANNUAL-DIST) with coverage from 1999 to present
• 2025-03-16 Updated to v2.4.0 for available collections
• 2024-01-14 Updated to v2.2.3 for available collections

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