Contemporary Wildfire Hazard Across Utah
In October 2021,Pyrologix was contracted by Timmons Group and the Utah Department of Natural Resources to conduct a wildfire hazard assessment for the state of Utah. This project is part of the Utah Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (UWRAP) and the wildfire hazard maps produced will be used to update the portal. This effort involved three primary tasks: calibrating and updating the fuelscape, producing measures of burn probability and simulated fire perimeters, and conducting wildfire intensity modeling and producing measures of wildfire hazard.
We leveraged LANDFIRE 2016 Remap 2.0.0 (LF Remap) data to generate a current-condition fuelscape for this effort – updated for recent disturbances and calibrated to reflect the fire behavior potential observed in recent wildfire events. 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 classifications(1) . A report describing the methods used to produce the fuelscape is available for download(2) .
