FUE · Vegetation

Fuel Layer

XGBoost multi-class + per-class regressors · v0.3 · 2026-06

Feeds the Petrel Wildfire Hazard product. Scott-Burgan FM40 classification + canopy structure (cover, base height, stand height, bulk density). Greenland data-availability masked due to Meta GCH and WorldCover coverage gaps.

Global canopy cover from v0.3 — Greenland correctly masked as land-no-data

What ships in the bundle

5 global 90 m GeoTIFFs (~4.9 GB total) plus the full documentation set. All files are Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs with internal tiling and overviews — fast for both bulk download and windowed reads.

FileDtypeUnitsDescription

fuel_model_class_90m.tifuint8FM40 codeScott-Burgan FM40 fuel-class classification

canopy_cover_90m.tifuint8% (0-100)Canopy cover fraction

canopy_base_height_90m.tifuint16 (× 10)mCanopy base height

stand_height_90m.tifuint16 (× 10)mTree stand height

canopy_bulk_density_90m.tifuint16 (× 100)kg/m³Canopy bulk density

Method

Inputs · ESA WorldCover 2021, Meta For Good canopy heights (Tolan 2023), Copernicus DEM, Köppen-Geiger climate

Training labels · LANDFIRE LF2022 CONUS (FBFM40 + canopy regression targets), augmented with ~12k global non-burnable samples from WorldCover

Method · XGBoost multi-class + per-class regressors

Documentation

Download

Free for non-commercial use. Account required.

# 1. Get a 1-hour signed URL
URL=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $PETREL_API_KEY" \
  https://api.petreldata.io/v1/layer/fuel/v0.3/bundle \
  | jq -r '.download_url')

# 2. Mirror the full layer (~4.9 GB):
aws s3 sync $URL ./fuel_v0.3/

License & citation

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0. Free for academic, research, and other non-commercial use. For commercial licensing, contact licensing@petreldata.io.

Citation:

Petrel (2026). Petrel Fuel Layer v0.3.
https://petreldata.io/layers/fuel
CC-BY-NC-4.0