Reducing Wildfire Threats to Communities, California, 2018

Description:

This Priority Landscape (PL) prioritizes lands where communities (people and associated infrastructure) are at risk from wildfire to direct efforts at reducing wildfire risk in these areas. Ranking: The ranking varies from 1 (least risk) to 5 (greatest risk). Housing density derived from FRAP's WUI layer is used to rank assets. Threat is determined using California Fire Hazard Severity Zones . Asset: The asset to be protected in this PL is communities, which are defined by housing densities. Less dense areas receive lower value and higher densities receive higher value. The classes of density are: 0 = No houses 1 = 0 - 0.05 housing unit per acre 2 = 0.051 - 0.200 housing unit per acre 3 = 0.201 - 1 housing unit per acre 4 = greater than 1 housing unit per acres Threat: The threat to the communities is Fire Hazard Severity, derived from CAL FIRE's Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zone ranking is: 1 = moderate severity 3 = high severity 5 = very high severity Final Ranking: The ranked asset and ranked threat were combined to derive the final ranked priority landscape. The results were ranked from the lowest risk of 1 to the highest risk of 5. This dataset was developed in 2018 to support the California Assessment of Forest and Rangelands. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Creator:

Fire and Resource Assessment Program (Calif.)

Publisher:

Fire and Resource Assessment Program (Calif.)

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Fire risk assessment and Boundaries

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2018

Date Issued:

2018

Spatial Coverage:

California

Rights:

The user will cite the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as the original source of the maps, but will clearly denote cases where the original maps have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition. The State of California and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. Neither the State nor the Department shall be liable under any circumstances for any direct, special, incidental, or consequential damages with respect to any claim by any user or third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps.

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/ry558mk7173