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Title: Curry County Wildfire Preparation Team Meeting


1
Risk Assessment
  • Curry County Wildfire Preparation Team Meeting
  • Curry County Fire Chiefs
  • June 28, 2007
  • Jim Wolf
  • Resource Innovations, University of Oregon

2
Assessment
  • Determine areas of concern
  • Establish WUI
  • Develop fuels strategy and priorities

3
Components
  • Risk
  • Hazard
  • Protection Capability
  • Values At Risk
  • Structure Vulnerability

4
Risk
  • Likelihood of a wildfire occurring
  • Based upon historic fire records from USFS, CPFA,
    BLM, fire districts
  • 1986-2003

5
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

6
Protection Capability
  • Effective response
  • Fire Department
  • Within FD
  • Wildfire training
  • Wildfire protective equipment
  • Distance from roads

7
Values At Risk
  • Life
  • Municipal watersheds
  • Timber
  • What else is important?
  • Scenic, aesthetic values
  • Vulnerable species

8
Overall
  • Weighted
  • Risk (15)
  • Hazard (40)
  • Protection (15)
  • Values (30)

9
Structural Vulnerability
  • Where high structural vulnerability meets high
    risk
  • Used to identify highest priority areas for fuels
    treatment, both on public and private lands

10
Establish WUI
  • Area that CWPP will effect under Healthy Forest
    Restoration Act
  • Reduce home ignition potential
  • Tactical fuels treatments
  • Strategic Fuels treatment

11
Develop fuels strategy and priorities
12
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