Project level fuels management planning using Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS

LANDFIRE Office Hours Session

Speaker

Nicole Vaillant, PhD, Fire Management Specialist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildland Fire Management RD&A   

Webinar Description

Conducting a Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment (QWRA) can make land management decisions more effective by characterizing the predicted benefits and threats from fire on several, often overlapping, values across your landscape. This information can be used to plan fuel treatments, pre-plan suppression response, design fire effects monitoring programs, and other related management activities on a landscape while accounting for the predicted benefits and threats from fire and the relative importance of different landscape values. A QWRA combines the likelihood of fire occurring, the intensity when fire occurs, and the effects of fire on the things we care about.  LANDFIRE data is integral to characterizing fuels and vegetation to model the likelihood and intensity of predicted fire within a QWRA. The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) includes a workflow to make the QWRA process manageable and time efficient. 

The Forest Service is the world’s leading wildland fire research organization, providing applications and tools to help prevent catastrophic wildfires that threaten lives and communities, damage homes, and adversely affect rural economies. Forest Service research leads innovations to provide the practical knowledge and tools fire managers need.