SILVIS Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

WUI maps are intended to illustrate where the WUI was located in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. We map two types of WUI: intermix and interface. Intermix WUI are areas where housing and vegetation intermingle; interface WUI are areas with housing in the vicinity of contiguous wildland vegetation. WUI GIS data were designed to provide a spatially detailed national assessment of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) across the conterminous U.S. to support inquiries into the effects of housing growth on the environment, and to inform both national policy and local land management concerning the WUI and associated issues. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels and are available for download by state as compressed ESRI Shapefiles (.shp), or for the entire U.S. as a compressed file geodatabase (.gdb). Detailed metadata is included with each archive.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessRights Public
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citation Title The 1990-2020 wildland-urban interface of the conterminous United States (version 4)- geospatial dataPublication date 2023-07-01Presentation formats digital mapFGDC geospatial presentation format vector digital data
cndp WSTC
creatorName Silvis Lab
creatorWebsite https://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/
dataAuthType public
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endDateTime 2020-12-31T23:59:59
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pocEmail helmers@wisc.edu
pocName Dept of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Russell Laboratories
publisherType org
spatialCov POLYGON((-168.0 65.6, -141.0 69.6, -67.0 44.8, -80.4 25.2, -97.4 25.9, -117.1 32.5, -154.8 19.0, -160.2 21.9, -168.0 65.6))
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startDateTime 1990-01-01T00:00
status submitted
theme ["Built Environment & Structures","Community Risk Reduction","Fire Innovation Unit - eligible for FireWERX Challenge","Climate & Weather","Environment","Geospatial","Science & Technology","Population & Society"]
timezone UTC
uploadType dataset
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  • coterminous-united-states
  • environment
  • fragmentation
  • housing-growth
  • sprawl
  • united-states
  • wildland-fire
  • wildland-urban-interface
  • wui
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metadata_created 2026-10-30T16:45:34.711384
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T16:45:34.711390
notes <p><span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">WUI maps are intended to illustrate where the WUI was located in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. We map two types of WUI: intermix and interface. Intermix WUI are areas where housing and vegetation intermingle; interface WUI are areas with housing in the vicinity of contiguous wildland vegetation. WUI GIS data were designed to provide a spatially detailed national assessment of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) across the conterminous U.S. to support inquiries into the effects of housing growth on the environment, and to inform both national policy and local land management concerning the WUI and associated issues. These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels and are available for download by state as compressed ESRI Shapefiles (.shp), or for the entire U.S. as a compressed file geodatabase (.gdb). Detailed metadata is included with each archive.</span></p>
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title SILVIS Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)