Contemporary Wildfire Hazard Across Colorado
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 wildfire hazard assessment will be used by fire and fuels specialists to support those efforts.
The wildfire hazard assessment products were needed in a relatively short timeframe. For this reason, existing fuel data from LANDFIRE and previously completed national burn probability results were leveraged as inputs to the WildEST (Wildfire Exposure Simulation Tool) fire hazard modeling.
