Description: This dataset is a 30-m cell size representation of people and property to depict wildfire risk to communities. The methods for creating this dataset are the same as the Wildfire Risk to Communities project (WRC).Jaffe, Melissa R.; Scott, Joe H.; Callahan, Michael N.; Dillon, Gregory K.; Karau, Eva C.; Lazarz, Mitchell T. (In Review). Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of wildfire risk for populated areas in the United States. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0060This dataset represents the relative potential impact to housing units if a fire were to occur. Housing Unit Impact (HUImpact) incorporates the general consequences of fire on a home as a function of fire intensity and uses flame length probabilities from wildfire modeling to capture likely intensity of fire. HUImpact does not include the likelihood of fire occurring, and it does not reflect mitigations done to individual structures that would influence susceptibility. It is similar to Conditional Risk to Potential Structures (cRPS) in Scott et al. (in prep2024), but also incorporates housing unit density and distance from burnable land cover.
Copyright Text: Primary data contact: The Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (www.SouthernWildfireRisk.com) is sponsored by the Southern Group of State Foresters (https://southernforests.org) and managed by Texas A&M Forest Service. Send an email to SouthWRAP-Support@tfs.tamu.edu for inquiries.
This dataset was developed for the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment by Pyrologix LLC (www.pyrologix.com), a subsidiary of Vibrant Planet (www.vibrantplanet.net).