The implementation of the National Fire Plan/Cohesive Strategy requires an integrated assessment of status, risks, and opportunities to ensure that our management efforts reduce wildland fire costs, improve ecosystem resiliency, conserve species and priority watersheds, and more fully reduce threats to public and firefighter safety.

The Northern Region of the U.S. Forest Service brought together our team with the primary purposes being to derive regional data layers necessary to implement the National Fire Plan/Cohesive Strategy and to develop a prototype for conducting multiscale integrated status, risk and opportunity assessments.