A Fuelscape for All-lands in Utah
The effort to produce a wildfire hazard assessment across all land ownerships in Utah began in October 2021 when the Timmons Group and Utah Department of Natural Resources contracted with Pyrologix. The foundation of any wildfire hazard or risk assessment is a current-condition fuelscape, updated for recent disturbances and calibrated to reflect the fire behavior potential observed in recent historical wildfire events. We leveraged LANDFIRE 2016 Remap 2.0.0 (LF Remap) data to generate a calibrated fuelscape for use in this statewide assessment.
LF Remap was released in the spring of 2019 with significant improvements over previous versions of LANDFIRE, including the use of new satellite imagery and continuous vegetation cover and height classifications1 .The Utah fuelscape was produced for use in the 2021 fire season and wildfire hazard modeling.
