Urban Forestry Data for Washington, DC Public Trees

DDOT's Urban Forestry Division stewards approximately 200,000 public trees in Washington, DC. The data is presented via an interactive portal to help the public understand the history, value, and management of the urban forest. The dataset was last updated on March 25, 2026, and is published by the District of Columbia under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing urban canopy coverage and distribution based on the described inventory of public trees.
• Modeling ecosystem benefits like air quality improvement and urban cooling mentioned in the description.
• Planning tree maintenance and planting initiatives based on management history data.
• Studying the relationship between urban forests and habitat for wildlife and people as described.

Strengths

• Dataset explicitly covers approximately 200,000 public trees in Washington, DC.
• Data is provided via an interactive portal with a stated mission for public understanding.
• Has a clear open license (CC-BY-4.0) and a recent update timestamp (2026-03-25).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to datagov, focusing solely on Washington, DC.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) Urban Forestry Division.

Collection Method

Likely collected and maintained as part of municipal urban forestry stewardship.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 08:14:55.369995; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Washington, DC, United States.