scholarly journals Analyzing Wildfire Suppression Difficulty in Relation to Protection Demand

Author(s):  
Matthew P Thompson ◽  
Zhiwei Liu ◽  
Yu Wei ◽  
Michael D Caggiano
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Author(s):  
David Klyde ◽  
Daniel Alvarez ◽  
P. Chase Schulze ◽  
Timothy Cox ◽  
Mark Dickerson


2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Cuddy ◽  
Julie A. Ham ◽  
Stephanie G. Harger ◽  
Dustin R. Slivka ◽  
Brent C. Ruby




Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simpson ◽  
Bradstock ◽  
Price

Suppression activities on large wildfires are complicated. Existing suppression literature does not take into account this complexity which leaves existing suppression models and measures of resource productivity incomplete. A qualitative descriptive analysis was performed on the suppression activities described in operational documents of 10 large wildfires in Victoria, Australia. A five-stage classification system summarises suppression in the everyday terms of wildfire management. Suppression can be heterogeneous across different sectors with different stages occurring across sectors on the same day. The stages and the underlying 20 suppression tasks identified provide a fundamental description of how suppression resources are being used on large wildfires. We estimate that at least 57% of resource use on our sample of 10 large wildfires falls outside of current suppression modelling and productivity research.



2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laine Christman ◽  
Kimberly Rollins

Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two cases of expected fire-suppression expenditures: one in which daily information about spatial variation in wildfire-potential is used to move fire suppression resources throughout the season, and the other case in which daily information is not used and fire-suppression resources are staged in their home locations all season. We demonstrate the method by constructing a hypothetical wildland management unit calibrated to represent a region typical in the US West. The method uses estimated suppression costs and probabilities of significant fire, as provided by an information service, to estimate expected suppression costs. We analyse differences in expected suppression costs for a range of risk scenarios. Economic savings occur for the majority of risk scenarios. This approach can be used to evaluate investments in wildfire-potential information services, and for assessing the value of investing in new resources.



2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey H. Donovan, PhD ◽  
Patricia A. Champ, PhD ◽  
David T. Butry, PhD

Drought conditions in much of the West, increased residential development, and elevated fuels from a century of wildfire suppression have increased wildfire risk in the United States. In light of this increased risk, an innovative wildfire risk education program in Colorado Springs was examined, which rated the wildfire risk of 35,000 homes in the city’s wildlandurban interface. Evidence from home sales before and after the program’s implementation suggests that the program was successful at changing homebuyer’s attitudes toward wildfire risk, particularly preferences for flammable building materials.



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