Wildland Fire Decision Support System

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Wildland Fire Decision Support System

• WFDSS

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Life Safety Property Costs

• Protect life enhance safety
• Firefighters in the right places for the right
  reasons?
• Protect property Private and public
• Protect and restore our wildlands Beneficial
  fire
• Contain suppression costs 2006 Season - 1.5
  billion

Risk-based Management

• Place firefighters in defensible positions
• Assure suppression commensurate with risk
• Know asset locations
• Get best information to managers Rapidly!

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WFDSS Wildland Fire Decision Support
System RAVAR Rapid Assessment of Values at Risk
Threat Values ? RAVAR
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FSPro Fire Spread Probability Map Risk-based
assessment

• Fire spread
• Vegetation
• Topography
• Weather
• Projection 5 30 days
• 1000 simulations
• Probability of fire spread
• Similar to hurricane maps

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Values-at-risk Occupied Structures from Parcel
Data

• Parcel GIS with improved values
• Create centroid ?
• Building cluster layer
• Summarize cluster count by Spread Probability
  Zone

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Parcel Data Requirements - Attributes

• Improved values
• Land Use
• Timber, agriculture
• Structure type
• Where no parcel data
• USGS structure extraction
• Point layer
• County tax records
• Limits
• FEMA home replacement cost x Census data

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Other Asset Layers

• Incident command
• Current perimeters IR data
• MODIS active fire points
• USGS FireData Site
• Multiple base layers
• DTRA ICWater
• Water supply
• Pipelines
• HAZMAT
• Other Landmarks
• Army Corps of Engineers
• National Inventory of Dams
• US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Critical habitat
• Local data
• Counties
• Local land managers

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FSProRAVAR Implementation

• Notification of ignition with Large Fire
  potential
• Fire Sciences builds FSPro projection maps
• Compile VAR layers
• Intersect FSPro with VAR
• Create Map and Summary Report
• Deliver within 24 hours
• or LESS!

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2005 Tarkio Fire MT RAVAR DEMO
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RAVAR 2006 Business Need Feasibility
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2006 Case for Business Need Feasibility
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2006 Case for Business Need Feasibility
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RAVAR Rapid Assessment of Values at Risk