Help & Documentation
Reference material for using the WyldFire viewer and understanding the wildfire, community, and vegetation layers it draws on. Pages are written to be skimmable up front and deep where it matters — particularly the Data & Methods pages, which document where each layer comes from, what its values mean, and how to read them.
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Viewer walkthrough
Step-by-step tour of the dashboard chrome — area-of-interest tools, layer panel, compare mode, and reports.
Reading the figures panel
Summary stats, histograms, categorical bar charts, and compare-mode layout explained.
Reports
What goes into the PDF report, what the buffer-vs-AOI delta columns mean, and how Fire Change Through Time is built.
Data & methods
Wildfire risk layers
Burn probability, conditional flame length, wildfire hazard potential, and risk to potential structures from the USDA FS WRC program.
Community characteristics
Building, housing-unit, and population counts on a 30 m grid — what they measure and how to aggregate them.
Vegetation
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type — the NatureServe ecosystem classes mapped across Wyoming.