Wildland-Urban Interface Raster 1990 (WUIFLAG90)

This raster dataset was created from the values in the WUIFLAG90 field in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Change 1990-2010 vector dataset, which was created by the SILVIS Lab, Dept of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1=intermix

2=interface

0=non-WUI

Intermix WUI are areas where housing and vegetation intermingle; interface WUI are areas with housing in the vicinity of contiguous wildland vegetation.

Original metadata below:

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 1990-2010. 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 and population densities for 1990, 2000, and 2010; wildland vegetation percentages for 1992, 2001, and 2011; as well as WUI classes in 1990, 2000, and 2010.