U.S. Wildland-Urban Interface Geospatial Data, 1990-2020

The conterminous United States is the geographic scope for this dataset on the wildland-urban interface. It was created by Volker C. Radeloff of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and contains data collected or funded by the USDA Forest Service Research and Development. The data covers a 30-year period from 1990 to 2020.

Use Cases

• Modeling wildfire risk based on wildland-urban interface data
• Analyzing land-use change over time based on the 30-year temporal coverage
• Planning for environmental resource management based on Forest Service research data
• Conducting geospatial analysis of human-environment interactions based on the described domain

Strengths

• Data covers a 30-year time range from 1990 to 2020
• Produced by a named principal investigator from a major research university
• Sourced from the USDA Forest Service Research and Development

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D), U.S. Department of Agriculture

Collection Method

Research data collected and/or funded by FS R&D, potentially including remote sensing.

Time Range

1990-2020

Geography

Conterminous United States