There is broad consensus in the scientific community that wildfire behavior is changing across the American West in general, and in California in particular. Figure 2.3 highlights trends in wildfire activity in California since 1990. All indicators shown—wildfire occurrence, total area burned, and av...
Here, we employ an interview-based analysis for a regional case study to systematically evaluate the driving factors inducing participation in an understudied wildfire preparedness program in California: Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones (VHFHSZs) in Local Responsibility Areas. California has historical...
Troy, A. "A tale of two policies: California programs that unintentionally promote development in wildland fire hazard zones." In: Troy A. and R. Kennedy (eds.), Living on the Edge: Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface. Amsterdam: ...
We took 2010 census block-level populations, combined with Cal Fire’s “Fire Hazard Severity Zone” maps, and aggregated those to ZIP codes, then applied more current population estimates. Next, we spatially joined those areas with the fire risk map. That provided a current population risk bre...
Population (2010) — 1,963 ' In Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone —1,963 On his first full day in office, Newsom visited the Cal Fire station in Colfax to announce new initiatives on wildfire safety. As he spoke to reporters, surrounded by first responders, he was standing in a city...
A KQED investigation has found that wildfire is a significant hazard at 35% of these facilities, in the wildland-urban interface, in state-designated fire hazard severity zones, or both.A gray wave is crashing on California. The Golden State is aging faster than the rest of the country. In...
2021). Forest fire severity and frequency is increasing in the Sierra Nevada (Miller et al. 2009), with costly fires like the 2020 August Complex (the largest California wildfire on record as of 2022, 4178 km2), the 2021 Dixie Fire (2nd largest, 3898 km2), and the 2020 Creek Fire (...
Lawmakers might consider excluding high wildfire hazard areas from eligibility, while including other criteria that incentivize more ‘location-efficient’ housing growth within existing urban areas where energy and water use and climate emissions would be reduced....
Fossil charcoal as a measure of wildfire fre- quency in southern California: a preliminary analysis. Pages 361-367 in: H.A. Mooney and C.E. Conrad, editors. Proceedings of the symposium on environmental consequences of fire and fuel management in Mediterranean ecosystems. USDA Forest Service ...
With the goal of determining whether cannabis is uniquely vulnerable to direct wildfire impacts (in terms of crop loss to burning), we integrated fire hazard severity zone (FHSZ) data, wildfire perimeters, and future burn regime projections in relation to the location and cultivated area...