Description: The Sonoma County Fuel model is a 5-meter spatial resolution fuel model that adheres to Scott and Burgan’s classification (Scott and Burgan, 2005). The fuel model provides a fine scale map of fuel conditions on the landscape and is a required input for fire behavior and fire spread models. The associated Landscape (.LCP) files provide the fuel model and associated raster inputs required for common fire behavior and fire spread model. The fuel model provides a higher spatial resolution than the existing, publicly available fuel models, which are the LANDFIRE data derived from 30-meter Landsat data. The fuel model and associated landscape files represent the state of the landscape when countywide high-resolution imagery and LiDAR data was collected in fall, 2013. In addition to the fuel model and associated landscape files, the Pepperwood Foundation also produced two rasters that provide information about the density of living and dead vegetation in the vertical stratum between 1 and 4 meters above the ground. Recent research has shown that LiDAR metrics that characterize this stratum provide a useful proxy for ladder fuels). The ladder fuel rasters are available at the following location: http://sonomaopenspace.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7f397e21c31644b3a244cec4c7a4f6c4