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Service Description: The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001) for the conterminous United States from 1990-2020. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels. Data are available as a geodatabase and include information such as housing densities for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020; wildland vegetation percentages for 1992, 2001, 2011, and 2019; as well as WUI classes in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.This WUI feature class is separate from the WUI datasets maintained by individual forest unites, and it is not the authoritative source data of WUI for forest units. This dataset shows change over time in the WUI data up to 2020.
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Description: The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001) for the conterminous United States from 1990-2020. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels. Data are available as a geodatabase and include information such as housing densities for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020; wildland vegetation percentages for 1992, 2001, 2011, and 2019; as well as WUI classes in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.This WUI feature class is separate from the WUI datasets maintained by individual forest unites, and it is not the authoritative source data of WUI for forest units. This dataset shows change over time in the WUI data up to 2020.
Copyright Text: Financial support was provided by the USDA Forest Service under the National Fire Plan. Funding also provided by USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. Data obtained from the U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, see source citations noted below for more details. Author Information: Volker C. Radeloff SILVIS Lab, Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9004-221X David P. Helmers SILVIS Lab, Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-0718 Miranda H. Mockrin USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1158-3833 Amanda R. Carlson SILVIS Lab, Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-2636 Todd J. Hawbaker U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, Colorado, USA https://orcid/org/0000-0003-0930-9154 Sebastián Martinuzzi SILVIS Lab, Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Title: Wildland Urban Interface - 2020
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Comments: The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001) for the conterminous United States from 1990-2020. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels. Data are available as a geodatabase and include information such as housing densities for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020; wildland vegetation percentages for 1992, 2001, 2011, and 2019; as well as WUI classes in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.This WUI feature class is separate from the WUI datasets maintained by individual forest unites, and it is not the authoritative source data of WUI for forest units. This dataset shows change over time in the WUI data up to 2020.
Subject: To provide a spatially detailed national assessment of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and WUI change between 1990 and 2020 across the coterminous U.S. to support wildland fire research, policy and management, and inquiries into the effects of housing growth on the environment.
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Keywords: conterminous United States,housing growth,environment,wildland fire,Wildland/urban interface,fragmentation,WUI,Fire,sprawl,wildland-urban interface,Environment and People,environment
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