Environment

Get access to a wide variety of data about the natural world to get environmental context about your locations.

  • WFIGS Current Wildfires

    The Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) Group provides authoritative geospatial data products under the interagency Wildland Fire Data Program.

    This dataset contains all wildland fire incidents from the IRWIN (Integrated Reporting of W…

    • Geographic Coverage
      usa:conus
      usa:ak
    • Geometry Types
      MULTIPOLYGON
      POINT
      POLYGON
  • NOAA Hurricane Energy

    Cumulative wind energy from hurricanes as recorded by NOAA. The hurricane wind energy is approximated and aggregated per hexagon.

    • Geographic Coverage
      usa:conus
      usa:pr
      usa:vi
    • Geometry Types
      POLYGON
  • USGS Seismic Hazard

    The 2014 update of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for the conterminous United States (2014 NSHM; Petersen and others, 2014; https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1128/) included probabilistic ground motion maps for 2 perce…

    • Geographic Coverage
      usa:conus
    • Geometry Types
      POLYGON
  • USGS Fault Lines

    This database contains information on faults and associated folds in the United States that demonstrate geological evidence of coseismic surface deformation in large earthquakes during the past 1.6 million years (Myr). At the time the Quaternary Fault an…

    • Geographic Coverage
      usa
    • Geometry Types
      LINESTRING
      MULTILINESTRING