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The Fire Severity Mapping System project (FIRESEV) is geared toward providing fire managers across the western United States critical information about the potential ecological effects of wildland fire at multiple levels of thematic, spatial, and temporal detail. A major component of FIRESEV is a comprehensive map of the western U.S. depicting the potential for fires to burn with high severity if they should occur. Developed as a 30m-resolution raster dataset, the map is intended to be an online resource that managers can download and use to evaluate the potential ecological effects associated with new and potential fire events. See the FIRESEV documentation page for more information and publications about the FIRESEV Severe Fire Potential map.

While the full extent of the FIRESEV Severe Fire Potential map covers all lands in the western United States, statistical modeling and mapping work was conducted separately for forested and non-forested settings in each of the 17 mapping regions shown below.


The FIRESEV Severe Fire Potential map for a 90th percentile fire weather scenario* is available for download from the table below. There is a separate product for forest vs. non-forest settings in each mapping region. Click on a file name in the table to initiate a download (individual download files vary from approximately 8MB to 350MB).

  Forest and Woodland Settings Non-Forest Settings
Region GeoTiff ESRI Grid GeoTiff ESRI Grid
1 sfp_fw90_r1.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r1.zip sfp_nf90_r1.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r1.zip
2 sfp_fw90_r2.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r2.zip sfp_nf90_r2.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r2.zip
3 sfp_fw90_r3.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r3.zip sfp_nf90_r3.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r3.zip
4 sfp_fw90_r4.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r4.zip sfp_nf90_r4.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r4.zip
5 sfp_fw90_r5.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r5.zip sfp_nf90_r5.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r5.zip
6 sfp_fw90_r6.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r6.zip sfp_nf90_r6.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r6.zip
7 sfp_fw90_r7.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r7.zip sfp_nf90_r7.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r7.zip
8 sfp_fw90_r8.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r8.zip sfp_nf90_r8.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r8.zip
9 sfp_fw90_r9.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r9.zip sfp_nf90_r9.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r9.zip
10 sfp_fw90_r10.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r10.zip sfp_nf90_r10.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r10.zip
11 sfp_fw90_r11.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r11.zip sfp_nf90_r11.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r11.zip
12 sfp_fw90_r12.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r12.zip sfp_nf90_r12.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r12.zip
13 sfp_fw90_r13.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r13.zip sfp_nf90_r13.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r13.zip
14 sfp_fw90_r14.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r14.zip sfp_nf90_r14.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r14.zip
15 sfp_fw90_r15.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r15.zip sfp_nf90_r15.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r15.zip
16 sfp_fw90_r16.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r16.zip sfp_nf90_r16.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r16.zip
17 sfp_fw90_r17.tif.zip sfp_fw90_r17.zip sfp_nf90_r17.tif.zip sfp_nf90_r17.zip

*90th percentile inverted 1000-hour fuel moisture

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