Contemporary Wildfire Hazard Across California
In July 2019, the Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service contracted with Pyrologix to conduct a spatial wildfire hazard assessment across all land ownerships across the state of California. The project consisted of three parts: fuelscape calibration, wildfire hazard assessment, and summary of wildfire risk to California communities.
In early March 2020, just days before nationwide shutdowns due to Covid-19, Pyrologix led two inperson fuel calibration workshops hosted by the Region and attended by a wide array of local, state, and federal specialists in the fields of fuel characterization, fire ecology, and fire behavior modeling. By mid-summer 2020 Pyrologix produced a 2020 fuelscape.
