Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment

• Other Authors: Meldrum, James R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Forestry & related industries; wildfire risk; object-oriented image analysis; Sentinel-2; fire behavior; flammap; wildfire management; water supply; erosion; wildfire containment; Potential fire Operational Delineations; Monte Carlo simulation; transmission risk; WUI; fire; defensible space; prescribed fire; community vulnerability; fire suppression costs; Zillow; wildfire; predictive modeling; fire spread model; Monte Carlo; spatial modeling; area difference index; statistics; precision; recall; principal components analysis; risk assessment; structure loss; wildland-urban interface; mitigation; mapping; land use; disaster; fire spread models; surrogate modeling; sensitivity analysis; global sensitivity analysis; colour coding; communication; forest fire; ordinal categorization; palette; risk; firefighter safety; safe separation distance; safety zones; LCES; Google Earth Engine; lidar; LANDFIRE; Landsat; GEDI; parcel-level risk; post-fire analysis; risk mitigation; rapid assessment; natural hazards; fuels; fire hazard; remote sensing; LiDAR; Sentinel; modeling; simulation
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Wildfire risk can be perceived as the combination of wildfire hazards (often described by likelihood and intensity) with the susceptibility of people, property, or other valued resources to that hazard. Reflecting the seriousness of wildfire risk to communities around the world, substantial resources are devoted to assessing wildfire hazards and risks. Wildfire hazard and risk assessments are conducted at a wide range of scales, from localized to nationwide, and are often intended to communicate and support decision making about risks, including the prioritization of scarce resources. Improvements in the underlying science of wildfire hazard and risk assessment and in the development, communication, and application of these assessments support effective decisions made on all aspects of societal adaptations to wildfire, including decisions about the prevention, mitigation, and suppression of wildfire risks. To support such efforts, this Special Issue of the journal Fire compiles articles on the understanding, modeling, and addressing of wildfire risks to homes, water resources, firefighters, and landscapes.