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Public Events Geodatabase
The LANDFIRE Public Events geodatabase used in LF 1.1.0 (Refresh 2008) production is available and includes three feature classes for each geographic area:

Raw Events	natural disturbance and vegetation/fuel treatment data 1999-2008
Model Ready Events
Exotics	occurrence of exotic or invasive plant species 1999-2008

The Public Events geodatabase includes contributions from:

federal     state    local    private organizations

Certain proprietary and/or sensitive data were removed in the public geodatabase. A table for the source code (lutSource_Code), which is an attribute in all three feature classes, is included. Consult the table "lutSource_Code" in the geodatabase for more information about the data sources. Refer to LANDFIRE 2008 Refresh Public Events READ ME for additional information.

Refer to Disturbance Data Processing to learn how LANDFIRE evaluates and processes the Public Events Geodatabase.

The Public Events geodatabase is used to determine disturbance causality in LANDFIRE products and can be used in change detection analysis.