Contemporary Wildfire Hazard Across Texas
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 highly valued resources and assets (Scott et al. 2013) wildfire hazard is defined as a physical situation with the potential for causing damage to vulnerable resources or assets. Wildfire hazard (Figure 1) is measured by two main factors in this risk assessment framework: 1) burn probability (or likelihood of burning), and 2) fire intensity (measured as flame length, fireline intensity, or other similar measures).
