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The purpose of the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (SWRA) is to provide foundational information about wildfire hazard across all land ownership in the United States Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8). Such information supports fuel management planning decisions, as well as revisions to land and resource management plans. A wildfire risk assessment is a quantitative analysis of potential impacts by wildfire. |
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The purpose of the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (SWRA) is to provide foundational information about wildfire hazard across all land ownership in the United States Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8). Such information supports fuel management planning decisions, as well as revisions to land and resource management plans. A wildfire risk assessment is a quantitative analysis of potential impacts by wildfire. |
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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). |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This spatial dataset was produced with the Wildfire Exposure Simulation Tool (WildEST), a cloud-based geospatial fire behavior characteristic simulation system. WildEST performs multiple deterministic simulations under a range of weather types (wind speed, wind direction, fuel moisture content) and weights those results based on weather type probabilities (WTP).</SPAN></P>
<b>This dataset is a raster representing Suppression Difficulty Index (SDI) across the project area. Wildfire Suppression Difficulty Index is a quantitative rating of relative difficulty in performing fire control work. SDI factors in topography, fuels, expected fire behavior under severe fire weather conditions, firefighter line production rates in various fuel types, and accessibility (distance from roads/trails) to assess relative suppression difficulty.
Additional information on the SDI can be found in the following references:
Rodriguez y Silva, F.; O'Connor, C.D.; Thompson, M.P.; Molina, J.R.; Calkin, D.E. 2020. Modeling Suppression Difficulty: Current and Future Applications. International Journal of Wildland Fire 29(8), 739-751; doi: 10.1071/WF19042
O'Connor, C.D., Thompson, M.P., Rodriguez y Silva, F. 2016. Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: quantifying and mapping management challenges and opportunities. Geosciences, 6(3), 35; doi: 10.3390/geosciences6030035
Rodríguez y Silva, F, Martínez, JRM, González-Cabán, A. 2014. A methodology for determining operational priorities for prevention and suppression of wildland fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24(3), 544-554; doi: 10.1071/WF13063</b></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The user must be aware of data conditions and must ultimately bear responsibility for the appropriate use of the information with respect to possible errors, possible omissions, map scale, data collection methodology, data currency, and other conditions specific to certain data.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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