Senate Bill 610, introduced in June by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco),sparked heated debateover its plan to eliminate the decades-old system of ranking state and local lands as “moderate,”“high” or “very high” fire hazard severity zones — designations that influence development...
Here, sociopolitical motivations and barriers for participation are evaluated in a state-recommended, though not legally required, local program in California (Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones). Through this regional case study, we examine how and why communities do or do not participate in ...
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: ...
All told, more than 2.7 million Californians live in very high fire hazard severity zones, from trailers off quiet dirt roads in the forest to mansions in the state’s largest cities, according to the analysis, which is based on 2010 block-level census data. The California Department of Fore...
FRAP 2007–California Fire Hazard Severity Zones The map designed in 2007 was made with the assurances of predictive value, but in classifying the entire state–a region that is in a sense heuristic, as it has nothing specific to its contours of fire risk–the map seeks to classify by only...
In response to the latest heat wave, the Los Angeles Fire Department will impose a 24-hour red flag parking restrictions Tuesday to remove illegally parked vehicles in posted locations within the very high fire hazard severity zones. It's the first time that the department has imposed the restr...
2021. California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan. https://wildfiretaskforce.org/action-plan/. Francis, E. J., P. Pourmohammadi, Z. L. Steel, et al. 2023. Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US ...
Factors influencing adoption and rejection of fire hazard severity zone maps in California. Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 2020, 50, 101686. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Enoh, M.A.; Okek, U.C.; Narinua, N.Y. Identification and modelling of forest fire severity and risk zones in the ...
Fire Hazard Analyses and Fire Risk Assessments An FHA is a type of engineering analysis that is designed to describe the risk of fire present in an environment in both qualitative (descriptive) and quantitative (numeric) terms. The FHA considers the severity of hazards in the area by evaluating...
Comparison of forest canopy openness (pollen-based vegetation response index [VRI]; dashed green line), fire (charcoal accumulation rate [CHAR]; orange line), and climate (Palmer Drought Severity Index [PDSI]; grey solid line) trends at Markwood Meadow, California, USA. Pollen and charcoal ca...