Evaluating forest-scale strategic planning for wildfire risk reduction

Keywords: spatial analysis, wildfire, GIS
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Tuesday
Session Start / End Time: 3/1/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 3/1/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 70

Abstract

Wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface, where human development intermingles with wildland vegetation, is impacted by a range of factors, including individual structures, their immediate surroundings, and neighboring parcels of land. Fine-resolution, quantitative analyses of how different mitigation policies impact overall wildfire risk are critically important. This study formalizes risk reduction as a mathematical model. A case study of a high fire risk wildland-urban interface neighborhood serves as a case study to illustrate the impact of zoning and land use change policies. It is demonstrated how these findings impact an effective public policy in wildfire risk mitigation.