Title:

Fuel break encounters with large wildfires in southern California National Forests and associated biophysical, suppression, weather, and fire behavior characteristics

Author(s):

Gannon, Benjamin M.; Wei, Yu; Belval, Erin J.; Young, Jesse D.; Thompson, Matthew P.; O'Connor, Christopher D.; Calkin, David E.; Dunn, Christopher J.

Publication Year:

2023

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Gannon, Benjamin M.; Wei, Yu; Belval, Erin J.; Young, Jesse D.; Thompson, Matthew P.; O'Connor, Christopher D.; Calkin, David E.; Dunn, Christopher J. 2023. Fuel break encounters with large wildfires in southern California National Forests and associated biophysical, suppression, weather, and fire behavior characteristics. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0098

Abstract:

We built a dataset of fuel break encounters with recent (2017-2020) large wildfires in southern California and their associated biophysical, suppression, weather, and fire behavior characteristics to develop statistical models of fuel break effectiveness. This data publication contains the spatial and tabular data used in the analysis. The spatial data include fuel break polylines and associated wildfire extent polygons. Tabular data include wildfire attributes such as fire identifiers, start year, source, discovery dates, as well as some additional information obtained from the incident status summary report and a fire plan analysis fire occurrence dataset. Additional tabular data describing the fuel break-wildfire interaction samples points are also included such as coordinates, outcomes, and predictor variables.

Keywords:

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; environment; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; Climate change; Fire; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Wildland/urban interface; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Natural Resource Management & Use; Engineering, roads, bridges; Landscape management; fuel breaks; wildfire; suppression; effectiveness; outcomes; California

Related publications:

• Gannon, Benjamin M.; Wei, Yu; Belval, Erin J.; Young, Jesse D.; Thompson, Matthew P.; O'Connor, Christopher D.; Calkin, David E.; Dunn, Christopher J. 2023. A quantitative analysis of fuel break effectiveness drivers in southern California National Forests. Fire. 6: 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6030104 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/66232

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