USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities
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US wildfire hazard and risk rasters from the USDA Forest Service, queryable at any latitude and longitude: the congressionally mandated Wildfire Risk to Communities layers (burn probability, flame length, exposure type, risk to structures, housing and population counts and risk reduction zones), national Wildfire Hazard Potential, FSim and QWRA probabilistic risk, suppression difficulty, snag hazard and firefighter evacuation time, MTBS and RAVG burn severity for past fires, BAER soil burn severity, potential control locations, and the 2025 Pacific Northwest net value change assessment.
GET /v1/data/wildfirerisk/area-histogram1Request
Exact service name as returned by the dataset list capability.
The area to summarise, as an Esri envelope or polygon geometry in JSON with an explicit spatialReference.
Which Esri geometry the area is expressed as.
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/wildfirerisk/area-histogram?service=USFS_EDW_RMRS_WRC_ExposureType&geometry=%7B%22xmin%22%3A-121.7%2C%22ymin%22%3A39.7%2C%22xmax%22%3A-121.5%2C%22ymax%22%3A39.85%2C%22spatialReference%22%3A%7B%22wkid%22%3A4326%7D%7D&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"
2Response example
A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities.
| size | min | max | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 | -0.5 | 1000.5 | [5342,623,396,333,278,246,238,227,180,173,"… 991 more items"] |
Attribution: Source: USDA Forest Service - Wildfire Risk to Communities and Fire & Aviation Management geospatial data, via the US GeoPlatform imagery service. Most layers are CC0 / US public domain; Wildfire Risk to Communities layers additionally ask that you cite Scott et al. 2024, https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0016-2
Licence: There is no single licence: terms are published per dataset in each service's own /info/iteminfo "licenseInfo" field, which the dataset-documentation capability returns. The linked URL is that field for the flagship Wildfire Risk to Communities burn probability service. Three families of terms occur across the 78 datasets. Wildfire Risk to Communities (29 services): "These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation: Scott, Joe H.; Dillon, Gregory K.; Jaffe, Melissa R.; [et al.] 2024. Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of landscape-wide wildfire risk components for the United States. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0016-2" - free reuse, citation requested, no fee and no permission needed. MTBS (4 services): "There are no restrictions on use, except for reasonable and proper acknowledgement of information sources", followed by the same CC0 waiver. 42 further services (BAER, RAVG, SAB, QWRA, Potential Control Locations, Fireshed, Pacific Northwest 2025): "As a work of the United States Government, these data are within the public domain of the United States. Additionally, the U.S. Forest Service waives copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 (which can be found at https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/)." The remaining three (Suppression Difficulty Index Alaska, Northern Rockies Housing Wildfire Risk regional and by-forest) carry only the accuracy disclaimer - "The USDA Forest Service makes no warranty, expressed or implied ... The user is responsible to verify the limitations of the geospatial data and to use the data accordingly" - which limits liability, not reuse; as works of the USDA Forest Service they are US public domain. No family restricts commercial use or redistribution. All quotes read from the live /info/iteminfo endpoints and re-verified 2026-10-22.
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A prompt for your agent that names this source and how to call it through the crw MCP.
Value distribution over an area
Use USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities (wildfirerisk) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Value distribution over an area" (area-histogram). You hold a boundary and want how its area splits across hazard or risk classes, not just its average. Example options: service=USFS_EDW_RMRS_WRC_ExposureType, geometry={"xmin":-121.7,"ymin":39.7,"xmax":-121.5,"ymax":39.85,"spatialReference":{"wkid":4326}}, geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "wildfirerisk" and capability "area-histogram". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Statistics over an area
Use USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities (wildfirerisk) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Statistics over an area" (area-statistics). You hold a boundary such as a county, parcel or watershed and want the average or worst-case wildfire value inside it. Example options: service=USFS_EDW_RMRS_WRC_BurnProbability, geometry={"xmin":-121.7,"ymin":39.7,"xmax":-121.5,"ymax":39.85,"spatialReference":{"wkid":4326}}, geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "wildfirerisk" and capability "area-statistics". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
BAER soil burn severity
Use USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities (wildfirerisk) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "BAER soil burn severity" (baer-soil-burn-severity). You are assessing post-fire soil damage, erosion or debris-flow risk at a location. Example options: geometry={"x":-121.6219,"y":39.7596,"spatialReference":{"wkid":4326}}. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "wildfirerisk" and capability "baer-soil-burn-severity". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Dataset documentation and citation
Use USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities (wildfirerisk) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Dataset documentation and citation" (dataset-documentation). You need the authoritative description, citation or reuse terms for one of these datasets. Example options: service=USFS_EDW_RMRS_WRC_BurnProbability. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "wildfirerisk" and capability "dataset-documentation". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>