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National Forest Damage Agent Range Maps


The maps are an integration of various sources, reviewed by regional authorities. For major forest damage causing insects and diseases, they display a historical record of county-level detections, highlighting the past three years of activity. For exotic insect or disease threats where rate of recent range expansion is of prime interest, the maps show a 3-year history of first -ever detection counties for that damage agent. Both ‘recent damage detection’ and ‘recent range expansion’ maps are annually updated each spring.

Recent Range Expansion Maps
Recent Range Expansion Maps
Damage Agent Common NameDamage Agent Scientific Name
Balsam woolly adelgidAdelges piceae
Balsam woolly adelgid (Alaska)Adelges piceae
Beech leaf diseaseBeech leaf disease
Black stain root disease summaryblack stain root disease summary
Browntail mothEuproctis chrysorrhoea
Emerald ash borerAgrilus planipennis
Goldspotted oak borerAgrilus auroguttatus
Laurel wiltRaffaelea lauricola
Polyphagous Shot Hole BorerEuwallacea nov. sp.
Red pine scaleMatsucoccus resinosae
Thousand cankers diseaseGeosmithia morbida
Recent Damage Detection and Range Maps
Recent Damage Detection and Range Maps
Damage Agent Common NameDamage Agent Scientific Name
Armillaria root diseaseArmillaria spp.
Armillaria root disease (Alaska)Armillaria spp.
Aspen leafminerPhyllocnistis populiella
Aspen leafminer (Alaska)Phyllocnistis populiella
Beech bark disease complexBeech bark disease complex
Douglas-fir beetleDendroctonus pseudotsugae
Fir engraverScolytus ventralis
Forest tent caterpillarMalacosoma disstria
Hemlock woolly adelgidAdelges tsugae
Heterobasidion Root Disease SummaryHeterobasidion Root Disease Summary
Heterobasidion Root Disease Summary (Alaska)Heterobasidion Root Disease Summary
Jack pine budwormChoristoneura pinus
Jeffrey pine beetleDendroctonus jeffreyi
LargeAspenTortrixChoristoneura conflictana
LargeAspenTortrix (Alaska)Choristoneura conflictana
Mountain pine beetleMountain pine beetle
Northern spruce engraverIps perturbatus
Northern spruce engraver (Alaska)Ips perturbatus
Oak wiltCeratocystis fagacearum
Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a deathCeratocystis spp.
Southern pine beetleDendroctonus frontalis
Spongy mothLymantria dispar dispar
Spruce beetleDendroctonus rufipennis
Spruce beetle (Alaska)Dendroctonus rufipennis
Spruce budwormChoristoneura fumiferana
Spruce budworm (Alaska)Choristoneura fumiferana
Western pine beetleDendroctonus brevicomis
Western spruce budwormChoristoneura occidentalis
White pine blister rustCronartium ribicola
Winter MothOperophtera brumata
Yellow-cedar decline (Alaska)Yellow-cedar decline
Armillaria root diseaseArmillaria spp.