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Categories | Example layers | Extent | Description |
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Base layers | Topographic | National | Topographic maps at various scales depending on the zoom level |
Google Products | National | Google Physical and Maps showing shaded relief or remotely sensed imagery |
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Fuels | LANDFIRE | National | Continuous, national-scale coverage of surface and canopy fuels and elevation, slope, and aspect used for the fire behavior analyses |
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Administrative references | Counties | National | County boundaries within states of the US |
Designated areas | Regional | Federal government areas with a special designation, such as, wilderness areas, research areas |
Major roads | National | US interstate, highway, and major streets |
Administrative boundaries | National | Proclaimed federal agency boundaries in the US |
FMU data layer | Regional | Fire management unit (FMU) areas from the land/resource/fire management plans of the local field unit |
Geographic Area Boundary | National | Boundaries of the geographic areas, interagency regions for mobilization of fire-fighting resources |
Responsible agency | Regional | State or federal agency responsible for fire suppression |
Surface management agency | Regional | Federal agency that manages land resources for a particular area |
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Values-natural resources | Sage grouse key habitat | Regional | Sage grouse areas (potentially a federally protected species) |
Class I airshed boundary | National | Areas of federally protected air quality in the US |
Ozone and particulate nonattainment areas | National | Areas where existing air pollution exceeds standards |
Range allotments | Regional | Pastures and allotments for livestock grazing |
Critical habitat | Regional | Critical habitat for Threatened and Endangered species |
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Values-infrastructure | Oil and gas leases | Regional | Oil and gas agreements and leases on federal lands |
Federal buildings | Regional | All structures on federally managed lands |
Building clusters | Regional | County records of structures, representing one or more buildings or homes |
Communication towers | National | Communication points recognized by the federal regulating communications agency (FCC) |
Mines layer | National | Locations of mines on federal lands |
Distribution lines | National | Pipelines of oil, natural gas, and power transmission lines |
Power stations and plants | National | Electric substations (subsidiary electric stations) and power plants |
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User-specified, incident and analysis | Fire perimeters | Local | Fire perimeters obtained on the fire with any collection method. Can be uploaded or hand drawn on the WFDSS map pages |
Planning features | Local | Points, lines, or polygons that will affect management decisions (i.e., fuel treatments, cultural sites) |
Analysis features | Local | Fire ignitions, barriers to fire growth, or masks where fuel model changes occur |
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Fire-related intelligence | RAWS stations | National | Remote automated weather station locations with links to current observations |
National digital forecast database | National | Five km grid of the national seven day weather forecast updated hourly; used for fire danger products and fire behavior analyses |
Historic fire perimeters | Regional | US fire perimeters larger than 40.5 ha from 2000–2010, including Hawaii and Alaska |
Current year fire perimeters | WFDSS | Aggregate of the most current individual fire perimeters contained in WFDSS |
Active MODIS | National | Remotely sensed infrared signatures updated twice daily at 1 km resolution |
Incidents | WFDSS | Location of fire incidents contained within WFDSS |
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