Muller said if the county accepts the viewer’s report, there will be a Notice of Intent published, which will then start the process of getting the public notifications out. Commission Chairman Nick Siddle spoke before the vote, saying he had started the process for setting it as a county ...
For wildfire data, we analysed the MODIS Collection 6.1 Active Fire dataset (MCD14ML)69and extracted grid cell-based fire frequency data from 2003 to 2020 (the years with complete data records for both Aqua and Terra). We selected only fires categorized as vegetation fires and excluded those ...
“Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have estimated that 80% of wildfires were concentrated in regions known to have a powerful mafia presence, while the Anti-Mafia Commission report completed in May 2022 concludes that the fires in Sicily show undeniably that the predatory actions of Sicily’s...
Case study area selection of rural NWMed communities was based on the following criteria: 1) currently facing fire risks among other natural risks; and 2) previous experience with wildland fire and participation in fire knowledge exchange networks (such as projects with the Pau Costa Foundation, i...
Introduction The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as the area where houses and other structures are built within or close to wildland vegetation (USDA and USDI2001). The term is used in the context of wildfire to identify settlements that are potentially at risk from fire (Caton et...
in their surrounding (500 m radius) as candidate WUI pixels. Compared to the commonly used definition of 6.17 buildings per km2, this threshold is usually slightly higher (depending on local building sizes). We chose this threshold to avoid WUI commission errors in low building density areas,...
The 100 m global human settlement layers are from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ghs_buS2023.php). The global WUI datasets for the 2020 baseline and 1985–2020 time series have been deposited in the following repository: https://data...
Introduction The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as the area where houses and other structures are built within or close to wildland vegetation (USDA and USDI2001). The term is used in the context of wildfire to identify settlements that are potentially at risk from fire (Caton et...
Thus, dugnad engagements may help solve local fire hazards. The purpose of the present study is to report on and analyse a fire that took place at Sotra island, 60.4° N, a half hour drive west of Bergen, Norway, June 2021, and to analyse possibilities for wildland fire fuel management...
Concept Paper Reducing Wooden Structure and Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Disaster Risk through Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management Torgrim Log 1 , Vigdis Vandvik 2, Liv Guri Velle 3 and Maria-Monika Metallinou 1,* 1 Fire disaster research group, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, ...