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Federal wildland fire management agencies are implementing a strategic landscape approach to developing long-term (10 to 15 years) work plans that guide the annual program of work for hazardous fuels treatments. This strategic approach is defined by the expectations of the National Fire Plan (NFP) and Healthy Forest Restoration Act / Healthy Forests Initiative (HFRA/HFI) and guided by the Agriculture and Interior agencies’ “Cohesive Strategies for Restoration of Fire-Adapted Ecosystems,” as well as by the agencies’ fire, land, and resource management planning policies. The desired outcome is acres planned or accomplished using “strategic landscape hazardous fuels analyses.”

In response, the National Interagency Fuels Technology Team (NIFTT) was tasked with developing spatial analysis and editing tools (see below) to facilitate achievement of this desired outcome. Use of LANDFIRE data with these tools allows analyses to be conducted on any combination of land ownerships.

Access the four spatial analysis & editing tools at the NIFFT website.

	FRCC Mapping Tool This tool produces spatial layers depicting vegetation departure based on Fire Regime Condition Class methodology.
	Fire Behavior Assessment Tool This tool derives fire behavior characteristics that would potentially occur under user-specified environmental conditions (such as fuel moisture levels and 20-ft wind speeds). The tool uses the same modeling algorithm as the fire behavior applications FlamMap and FARSITE.
	Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool The primary functions of this tool are to summarize, integrate, and classify spatial data at a reporting unit level. These data can then be used to identify management priorities.
	Area Change Tool The primary function of this tool is to easily edit ArcGRID raster layers for pre- and post-treatment scenario evaluations.