Forested Acreage, Ownership, and Tree Inventory Data

Forest facts for Virginia (2003)
Forested acreage of Virginia - This information is derived primarily from the U. S. Forest Service Forest Inventory data and several historical references.
View forestland information for each county in Virginia.
Virginia Forest Land Ownership
Forest Inventory & Analysis of Virginia.
Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) - This United States Forest Service Web site offers online databases.
1995 Resource Assessment - Virginia's 1995 assessment of its forest resources.

Reports

Virginia's Forests, 2007. Between 2002 and 2007, the Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program conducted the eighth inventory of the forests of Virginia. About 15.7 million acres, or 62 percent, of Virginia was forested. The majority (12.4 million acres) of Virginia’s forest land was in nonindustrial private forest ownership. Public ownership and forest industry ranked second and third, with 2.8 and 0.6 million acres, respectively. (English; PDF format)
Forest statistics for Virginia, 1992. 66 pp. (English; PDF format).
Virginia's timber industry - an assessment of timber product output and use, 1995. (English; PDF format).
A forested tract-size profile of Virginia's NIPF landowners. Information and statistics on non-industrial private forest landowners. (English; PDF format).

Forest Resources Trends Presentation - View a presentation on the history of Virginia's forests, and the challenges that lie ahead in preserving and maintaining this resource for future generations. (English; PowerPoint; 1.4MB)

Last modified 2007-07-12