# U.S. Forest Service
*agency . companies*

## Specifications
- **operator domains**: ["fs.usda.gov"]
- **country**: United States
- **website**: https://www.fs.usda.gov
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-20
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"agency","operator_domains":"[\"fs.usda.gov\"]","country":"United States","website":"https://www.fs.usda.gov"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
The U.S. Forest Service is a United States agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, founded in 1905.[^fs-founding]

Its EO role is as a satellite-data consumer and analysis producer for wildfire mapping, burned-area assessment, vegetation change detection, and landscape characterisation.[^landfire-2024][^barc-usgs-catalog] LANDFIRE is a joint USFS/USGS national geospatial data program producing fuel, vegetation, and disturbance layers for wildfire management, with annual updates from 2024 and an LF2024 release cycle spanning 2025-2026.[^landfire-2024][^usgs-landfire-2024] Burned Area Reflectance Classification is a post-fire burn-severity product from the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center, derived from Landsat and Sentinel-2 for rapid delivery to Burned Area Emergency Response teams; the archive covers 2001-2024.[^barc-usgs-catalog] The Remote Sensing Applications Center in Salt Lake City receives satellite data and produces maps and reports for fire and resource management.[^rsac-wikipedia]

## Sources
- [landfire-2024] | LANDFIRE 2024 Update | https://www.landfire.gov/data/lf2024 | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [usgs-landfire-2024] | LANDFIRE 2024 Update ver 2.0 March 2026 (USGS) | https://www.usgs.gov/data/landfire-2024-update-ver-20-march-2026 | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [barc-usgs-catalog] | BARC Assessment Burned Areas 2001-2024 (USGS Data Catalog) | https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/data/USGS:62e3cda2d34e394b65365bd4 | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [rsac-wikipedia] | Remote Sensing Applications Center (Wikipedia) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Sensing_Applications_Center | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fs-founding] | 120 Years Forest Service | https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/features/120-years-forest-service | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20

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