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Lake County publishes public LiDAR derivatives to help landowners, firefighters and planners

Lake County Board of Supervisors · January 15, 2026

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County staff and partners announced public access to LiDAR-derived map products — canopy height, slope, hillshade, ladder fuels and 1‑ft contours — on the county GIS portal; Cal Fire and consultants said the data will improve fuels mapping, grant applications and parcel-level planning and enable new tree‑mortality tracking and fine‑scale vegetation mapping in 2026–2027.

County GIS staff and regional partners unveiled a new public set of LiDAR derivative datasets and a county viewer that allows landowners and non‑GIS users to explore hillshades, slope, canopy height, canopy cover, ladder‑fuel layers and download 1‑foot elevation contours. Mark Tuckman of Tuckman Geospatial and county GIS specialist Lon Sharp…

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