What you can ask
- “What does VA Department of Forestry have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent VA Department of Forestry records and put them in a table.”
- “What does VA Department of Forestry cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Virginia Department of Forestry — state forests, DOF offices, fire-risk Woodland Home Communities, and the DCR-curated Virginia Conservation Lands aggregator. - searchStateForests ⭐ 26 state forest polygons (Appomattox-Buckingham 19.5K acres + 25 others) - searchConservationLands ⭐ 14,535 polygons across 70 tract types — state parks, forests, WMAs, easements, federal/local/private fee tracts - searchWoodlandCommunities ⭐ 5,433 fire-risk evals (Low/Moderate/Medium/High/EXTREME) - searchDofOffices 42 office points §0: WHC County is UPPERCASE. Conservation Lands has no county column — filter by name/agency/bbox. Com_Type has 5 typo variants of Interface/Intermix.
Connector ID va-dof
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchStateForests
readVirginia state forest polygons (26 forests). Filter forestName, minAcres, bbox, near.
Appomattox-Buckingham at 19.5K acres is the largest.
searchConservationLands
readVA Conservation Lands (~14.5K). Filter maType, maLevel, maAgency, layerTier, minAcres.
70 MATYPE values incl Conservation Easement (7,961), State Park, State Forest.
searchWoodlandCommunities
readVA fire-risk evals of WUI communities (~5.4K). Filter county, fireRisk, comType.
County is UPPERCASE upstream. Com_Type has typo variants — substring match.
searchDofOffices
readVDOF offices (42 points). Filter city, region, name.
getServiceInfo
readSchema, record counts, max-page caps, conservation lands + WHC enum values, §0 probe notes.
