Check Out TWIG Viewer! Maps FS (and BLM) Fuel Treatments and Wildfires

Thanks to Anonymous for putting this in the comments. For a long time, many of us have wanted a simple way to look at what’s out there and somehow combine info in FACTS and NFPORS. Well, Congress funded SWERI to do that, and here is TWIG and the viewer.

I don’t know how it handles repeated treatments on the same acres (a concern pointed out in the Fix our Forests bill).

As far as I know, the SWERI folks have combined existing layers, so there shouldn’t be any question about accuracy.  If the FS were to differentiate unintentional wildfire from WFU or whatever it’s called now, it could be added easily.

Here’s an example in my area:

It seems very cool.  It turns out that incorporating private and State land data is already being worked on as per Anonymous’ comment below.
Here’s the link:

Timmons Group partnered with multiple agencies working towards better tracking and management of national fuels treatment data. These agencies include DOI – Office of Wildland Fire, USDA – Forest Service, and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF).

These 3 entities (and their members) represent the bulk of the public bodies vested in wildfire and fuels management. This project is currently in-flight and has a few working titles. The project was initiated as a joint effort to prove a path forward for the implementation of the then, recently signed, Shared Stewardship agreements between all State Forestry agencies and the USFS. This initial effort was termed SWRM which stands for Shared Stewardship Risk Mitigation. This project was a pilot that was further funded and positioned as a replacement for the current, NFPORS system (national fuels reporting system used by Federal and State agencies). The current project has the working name of NextGEN (next generation system to replace NFPORS) but also goes by the title of National Fuels effort.

The NextGen / National Hazardous Fuels Reporting Initiative, once completed, will fully replace NFPORS and be the official reporting system for all State and Federal wildfire agencies. The solution will include tools to harvest treatments from agencies using FME and other custom tools. It will include portals for displaying and prioritizing treatments in context with peer agencies and executive reporting dashboards.

The project team includes multiple State Forestry agencies, Federal partners (e.g., DOI OWF / USFS), and NGO representation (NASF). The project is only partially funded as of calendar year 2023. The project team has grand visions for this effort to include expansion out to the private prescribed burning community and to potentially support the fuels projects that will emerge from local governments via the Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) BIL funding.