Description: This feature class represents the wildland fire protection areas within Alaska. The State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources (DFFP), US Wildland Fire Service, Alaska (AFS), and the US Forest Service (USFS) have responsibility for providing and coordinating wildland fire suppression services. Geographic units where the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources is is protecting agency are called "Areas" (the exceptions is Haines Area), the AFS units are "Zones", and the USFS units are "Forests".
Copyright Text: Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG), State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP), US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Wildland Fire Service, Alaska (AFS)
Description: These data represent the fire management option boundaries for the state of Alaska. The spatial extent of this dataset matches the BLM Alaska Terrestrial Boundary and that boundary is subject to revision. The four fire management options are "critical", "full", "modified", and "limited". Fire management options are designated by the land managers or owners and are reviewed annually, as outlined in the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire Management Plan, October 1998. Several large areas are designated as "unplanned". These include areas where the land manager/owner did not participate in the planning process. Many more of the "unplanned" areas are islands. Native Allotments are managed as "full" protection areas, and are included in this dataset as such. The process of updating the Options with Allotments leaves several sliver polygons of different protection level around the Allotments in some areas,
Copyright Text: Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG), State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP), US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Wildland Fire Service, Alaska (AFS).
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Description: Predictive Service Areas (PSAs) are geographic areas for which national-level fire weather or fire danger services and products are produced by wildland fire agency meteorologists and intelligence staffs in support of resource allocation and prioritization. A PSA boundary defines areas where 2 or more weather elements or National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indices exist with a high correlation to historical significant fire size. "Significant fires" are the 95th percentile fire size for the PSA. Data modified to coincide with Alaska Wildland Fire Jurisdictions.
Copyright Text: National Wildfire Coordinating Group Geospatial Subcommittee, National Interagency Fire Center
Description: This layer shows different Administative Boundaries within Alaska. These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and recognizes that this data will never be 100% QCed. Official and accurate data should be obtained directly from the data steward. Please see the metadata of the individual layers for complete details.
Copyright Text: AK Department of Natural Resources, Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service
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Description: Alaska Wildland Fire Jurisdictions is a spatial dataset produced by the Bureau of Land Management-Division of Support Services and the Alaska Fire Service. It provides land ownership information for initial fire management decisions. Alaska Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems use the dataset to determine the default ownership and jurisdiction for a location. This feature class merges land ownership/management feature classes from contributing entities (publicly available borough, municipality, state, federal, and other entity management and ownership GIS data) into a single feature class. Overlapping input feature classes are prioritized and lower priority features are replaced by higher priority features. It contains tracts that represent the owner with the majority of surface rights. Subsurface ownership is not represented. For the most part, when a land owner possesses the majority of surface rights, that landowner has fee simple rights to the land. Alaska Wildland Fire Jurisdictions is not an authoritative source for land status information and does not necessarily show the most recent changes in jurisdiction.
Copyright Text: Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG), State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP), US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Wildland Fire Service, Alaska (AFS)