Location, Location, Location: Finding and Mitigating Wildfire Risk in a Wildland-Urban Sea
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Location, Location, Location:Finding and Mitigating Wildfire Risk
in a Wildland-Urban Sea
Dr. Joseph White, Department of BiologyBaylor University
Waco, Texas
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Semantics: Hazard vs. Risk • Hazard– Any real or potential condition that can cause injury• Fuels
• Risk– The potential for loss to occur given the realization of
a hazard– Risk = Hazard × Exposure
• Exposure is the probability of the fruition of a hazardous situation• Loss includes houses AND habitat!
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Hazard = Fuels
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Austin, TX
Western Austin, TX
Fuel map derived from spectral partitioning of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper data
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GIS Data
Terrain
Vegetation Type
CanopyCharacteristics
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Crown Bulk Density (CBD) Mapping
LiDaR
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FLAMMAP: Burn Probabilities= Exposure• Predicts long-term fire potential
utilizing randomized ignition points for iterative prediction of burned areas
• “The burn probability for a given pixel is an estimate of the likelihood that a pixel will burn given a random ignition within the study area and … is not an estimate of the future likelihood of a wildfire…” Ager et al. 2007
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• Dry, hot, south winds• 500,000 random fires• Fire size varies
Simulate!
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Risk Realized
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Communities at Risk Mapped
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Risk Reduction• FLAMMAP simulation shows
– Risk CBD
– R0 = risk at time 0– R1 = risk at time 1– β = Coefficient ranging from 0.4 to 1.7
depending on house type
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“Urban forests are economic goods. When income increases the demand [for urban forests] will rise as well.”P. Zhu and Y. Zhang. 2008. Landscape and Urban Planning 84:293-300.
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Acknowledgements• Research supported provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
– Carl Schwope, Deborah Holle, Carl Sexton• Research supported provided by City of Austin
– William Conrad, Glen Gillman, Lisa, O’Donnell, Scott Rowin• Bowman Environmental
– Bill Gabler, Deborah Blackburn, Cliff Ladd• Center for Spatial Research @ Baylor
– Jonathan Cook, Patricia Spiller, Bruce Byars• Spatial Ecology Lab @ Baylor