Data | Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium

Find and download NLCD data as prepackaged data types and years. If you want to interactively view and choose your own download geography and data, go here (viewer).

Urban Imperviousness

NLCD imperviousness products represent urban impervious surfaces as a percentage of developed surface over every 30-meter pixel in the United States. NLCD 2016 updates all previously released versions of impervious products for CONUS (NLCD 2001, NLCD 2006, NLCD 2011) along with a new date of impervious surface for 2016. New for NLCD 2016 is an impervious surface descriptor layer. This descriptor layer identifies types of roads, core urban areas, and energy production sites for each impervious pixel to allow deeper analysis of developed features. No new imperviousness products for Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are available from NLCD 2016. (Read More)

NLCD Imperviousness (CONUS) All Years

CONUS | 2016, 2011, 2006, 2001

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NLCD 2016 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2016 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2016

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NLCD 2011 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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NLCD 2011 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2011

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NLCD 2006 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2006

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NLCD 2006 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2006

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NLCD 2001 Percent Developed Imperviousness (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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NLCD 2001 Developed Imperviousness Descriptor (CONUS)

CONUS | 2001

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Historical NLCD shrub products now available!

Published Jun 11, 2020

The USGS in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management has produced historical NLCD shrub products for Western U.S. shrubland areas for every year between 1985-2018. Products are available for six components including shrub, sagebrush, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, litter and bare ground.

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NLCD 2016 Alaska Products Now Available

Published Apr 15, 2020

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the MRLC consortium has released a new generation of National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products for Alaska. The 2016 Alaska Landcover includes new impervious and developed features across the state as well as updated change information products for all years. Alaska tree canopy products for the state were previously released by the U.S. Forest Service. All land cover, imperviousness and tree canopy products are now available for download here.

New NLCD 2016 Results Paper Published

Published Mar 05, 2020

A new paper entitled, "Conterminous United States Land Cover Change Patterns 2001-2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database," has just been published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. This paper describes the production and land change results from NLCD 2016 land cover products, and will serve as the primary citation for these products.