This author has yet to write their bio.Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud Ella Kobelt contributed a whooping 33 entries.
A fuelscape is a quantitative raster representation of the fuel, vegetation, and topography across a landscape. The fuelscape consists of geospatial datasets representing surface fuel model (FM40), canopy cover (CC), canopy height (CH), canopy bulk density (CBD), canopy base height (CBH), and topography (slope, aspect, elevation). These datasets can be combined into a single landscape […]
The purpose of the Texas Wildfire Hazard Assessment (TWRA) is to provide essential information about wildfire hazard across all land ownerships within the state of Texas. The foundation of any wildfire risk assessment is the wildfire hazard data used to characterize fire behavior on the landscape. In the quantitative framework for assessing wildfire risk to […]
The purpose of the Southern Region Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment (SWRA) is to provide essential information about wildfire hazard across all land ownerships within the region. The foundation of any wildfire risk assessment is the wildfire hazard data used to characterize fire behavior on the landscape. In the quantitative framework for assessing wildfire risk […]
A fuelscape is a representation of the fuel, vegetation, and topography across a landscape. The fuelscape consists of geospatial datasets representing surface fuel model (FM40), canopy cover (CC), canopy height (CH), canopy bulk density (CBD), canopy base height (CBH), slope, elevation, and aspect. These datasets can be combined into a single landscape file (LCP) and […]
The purpose of the Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment (TWRA) is to provide foundational information about wildfire hazard across the geographic area. Such information supports wildfire response, regional fuel management planning, and revisions to land and resource management plans. A wildfire risk assessment is a quantitative analysis of the assets and resources across a specific landscape […]
WildEST—the Wildfire Exposure Simulation Tool—is a cloud-based software system that uses a command line application of the FlamMap fire behavior modeling system1 to produce continuously variable landscape scale spatial data representing fire weather, flame-front, and ember characteristics as well as integrated measures of risk to buildings, wildfire hazard, and suppression difficulty. Read the full report
In March 2022, Pyrologix was contracted by Timmons Group and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service to conduct a wildfire hazard assessment for the state of New Jersey. This project is part of the New Jersey Wildfire Hazard Assessment Project (NJHAZ). This effort involved three primary tasks: calibrating and updating the fuelscape, producing measures of […]
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 […]
In September 2021, the Black Hills National Forest (BKF) contracted with Pyrologix to conduct a spatial wildfire hazard assessment across the BKF. The BKF is set to undergo Forest Plan Revision and the Potential Operational Delineations (POD) planning process and identified the need for comprehensive fire modeling to provide supporting documentation. The results of this […]
The pilot effort to assess risk to certain highly valued resources and assets is an extension of the California All-Lands Hazard Assessment, a project funded by the USDA Forest Service that produced fuel and wildfire hazard information for the year 2020. Since that time, the wildfire hazard data has been updated to reflectthe historic wildfire […]
