Mod-FIS SW and Great Basin
![Mod-FIS map of in-season annual grass conditions for SW United States and Great Basin](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/Mod-FIS%20summer.jpg?itok=cpXXMju-)
Detailed Description
This graphic of the in-season condition of annual grasses in the U.S. Southwest and Great Basin was created with LANDFIRE’s Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System, or MoD-FIS. The summer of 2020 fuel vegetation cover was updated using Landsat Normalized Different Vegetation Index imagery from Feb. 1 to September of 2020, and is useful in informing wildland fire conditions.
Sources/Usage
Public Domain.