Planscape
The Decision Support Tool for Wildfire Resilience
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Planscape
The Decision Support Tool for Wildfire Resilience
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Planscape
The Decision Support Tool for Wildfire Resilience
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  • What is Planscape?

Planscape is a free decision support tool built to maximize wildfire resilience by helping regional planners across the USA prioritize landscape treatments to mitigate wildfire risk, maximize ecological benefits, and help landscapes adapt to climate change.

Planscape is a collaborative effort by the US Forest Service, Google.org, University of California, Spatial Informatics Group, American Forests, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, California Natural Resources Agency, and others.

“Californians are threatened by worsening wildfires driven by an overheated, unstable climate,” said California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot. “Planscape will leverage science and data to help deliver wildfire resilience projects that protect our communities and natural places.”
ade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources Secretary
Wade Crowfoot California’s Natural Resources Secretary
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Why we are different?

  • Free, fast landscape-scale planning
Evaluating hundreds of thousands of acres of land for treatment is daunting. Planscape quickly helps you determine the best areas for different types of treatment.
  • Quality, vetted data you can rely on
The quality of your analysis is only as good as your data. Planscape uses the Regional Resource Kits – the latest, scientist-approved data, specific to the unique ecology of each eco-region. Data is updated bi-annually.
  • Simplifies the use of the best science
Planscape is built on top of powerful analysis tools such as ForSys, FVS and GridFire. We integrate them in an intuitive user interface, for free, in any web browser. This simplifies and accelerates the analysis process, letting your team collaborate together on a single plan.
  • Incorporates climate change
In areas such as climate change, where the data and science is evolving quickly, our open-source platform ensures you have access to the latest capabilities (e.g., PROMOTe) and can incorporate them into your planning.
  • Collaboratively governed, open-science

Planscape is a free, open-source tool that is supported by major agencies including the USFS, ILTF, American Forests, CNRA, University of California, the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Taskforce, and Google.org. No commercial entity owns or profits from Planscape.

Why we are different?

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  • Free, fast landscape-scale planning
Evaluating hundreds of thousands of acres of land for treatment is daunting. Planscape quickly helps you determine the best areas for different types of treatment.
  • Quality, vetted data you can rely on
The quality of your analysis is only as good as your data. Planscape uses the Regional Resource Kits – the latest, scientist-approved data, specific to the unique ecology of each eco-region. Data is updated bi-annually.
  • Simplifies the use of the best science
Planscape is built on top of powerful analysis tools such as ForSys, FVS and GridFire. We integrate them in an intuitive user interface, for free, in any web browser. This simplifies and accelerates the analysis process, letting your team collaborate together on a single plan.
  • Incorporates climate change
In areas such as climate change, where the data and science is evolving quickly, our open-source platform ensures you have access to the latest capabilities (e.g., PROMOTe) and can incorporate them into your planning.
  • Collaboratively governed, open-science
Planscape is a free, open-source tool that is supported by major agencies including the USFS, CNRA, University of California, the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Taskforce, and Google.org. No commercial entity owns or profits from Planscape.

Open Science & Open Data

Planscape is built on the best data, using the best ecological and fire science.

We’re open science. Our work is transparent, inclusive, democratic and accessible. Planscape is designed, funded and developed collaboratively.
Planscape code is openly available for anyone to use, with a public-domain, no-copyright license.

The Planscape Cooperative

Planscape is an open–science collaboration of the USDA Forest Service, University of California, Google.org, Spatial Informatics Group, American Forests, ILTF, and the California Natural Resources Agency, . No commercial entity owns or profits from Planscape. We welcome new collaborators and would love to hear from anyone who wants to get involved. Reach out.

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Testimonials

Sonoma Technology, Inc. (STI)

“…having access to the Planscape software will allow us to focus more on fire hazard reduction, and toward our shared goal of protecting life and limbs.”

sonomatech.com

Sonoma Technology
PG&E

“I would like to test Planscape to review its potential to improve coordination and planning”

pge.com

PG&E
Blue Forest

“this would be so helpful for our work to help fund and finance landscape restoration”

blueforest.org

Blueforest
California Natural Resources Agency

“Planscape will leverage science and data to help deliver wildfire resilience projects that protect our communities and natural places.”

resources.ca.gov

The California Natural Resources Agency
Sonoma RCD

“Planscape will help the Sonoma RCD with our outreach to land managers ... it will help us secure future funding to implement projects for fuels reduction, forest health, and fire resiliency.”

sonomarcd.org

Sonoma RCD