Curry County Wildfire Preparation Team Meeting

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Risk Assessment

• Curry County Wildfire Preparation Team Meeting
• Curry County Fire Chiefs
• June 28, 2007
• Jim Wolf
• Resource Innovations, University of Oregon

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Assessment

• Determine areas of concern
• Establish WUI
• Develop fuels strategy and priorities

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Components

• Risk
• Hazard
• Protection Capability
• Values At Risk
• Structure Vulnerability

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Risk

• Likelihood of a wildfire occurring
• Based upon historic fire records from USFS, CPFA,
  BLM, fire districts
• 1986-2003

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Hazard

• Combination of fire intensity and crown fire
  potential using FLAMMAP outputs
• difficultly to control
• damage
• Currently refining mapping data for use
• Invasive, exotic species
• Will need to update large fires and harvest

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Protection Capability

• Effective response
• Fire Department
• Within FD
• Wildfire training
• Wildfire protective equipment
• Distance from roads

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Values At Risk

• Life
• Municipal watersheds
• Timber
• What else is important?
• Scenic, aesthetic values
• Vulnerable species

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Overall

• Weighted
• Risk (15)
• Hazard (40)
• Protection (15)
• Values (30)

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Structural Vulnerability

• Where high structural vulnerability meets high
  risk
• Used to identify highest priority areas for fuels
  treatment, both on public and private lands

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Establish WUI

• Area that CWPP will effect under Healthy Forest
  Restoration Act
• Reduce home ignition potential
• Tactical fuels treatments
• Strategic Fuels treatment

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Develop fuels strategy and priorities
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Thanks