WFDSS Help Desk
fire_help@fs.fed.us
+1 800-253-5559
WFDSS is primarily geospatial, and uses pre-loaded shapefiles and data layers to provide information to the user. For 2009, limited pre-loaded shapefiles and data layers are available. In the long-term, the WFDSS data team plans to locate the appropriate authoritative data sources and data services that provide national, geographic, regional, or local datasets that assist the fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents.
As a web-based application, analyses and reports are accessible across all levels of the federal wildland fire organization. In addition, WFDSS provides a single process that is intuitive, linear, scalable, and progressively responsive to changing fire complexity. To maximize the advantages that WFDSS offers, fire managers need a variety of spatial data layers to aid their decision-making in WFDSS.
Consider the following questions when deciding what data layers are important to you as a fire manager.