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Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA (data release)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1990
End Date
2019

Citation

Hawbaker, T.J., Henne, P.D., Vanderhoof, M.K., Carlson, A.R., Mockrin, M.H., and Radeloff, V.S., 2023, Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9237EQ3.

Summary

Wildfires and housing development have increased since the 1990s, presenting unique challenges for fire management. However, it is unclear how the relative influences of housing growth and changing wildfire occurrence have contributed to risk to homes. We fit a random forest using weather, land cover, topography, and past fire history to predict burn probabilities and uncertainty intervals. Then, we estimated risk at 1-km resolution and monthly intervals from 1990 through 2019 by combining predicted burn probabilities with housing density across the Southern Rocky Mountains. We used 3 scenarios to evaluate how housing growth and changes in burn probability influenced risk individually and combined (observed, 1990 housing, and 1990 [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Todd J Hawbaker
Originator :
Todd J Hawbaker, Paul D Henne, Melanie K Vanderhoof, Amanda R Carlson, Miranda H. Mockrin, Volker C Radeloff
Metadata Contact :
Todd J Hawbaker
SDC Data Owner :
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Southern_Rocky_Mountains_burn_probability_and_risk_metadata.xml
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data_dictionary.csv
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src.zip 102.88 KB application/zip
Southern_Rocky_Mountains_burn_probability_and_risk_metadata.html 83.99 KB text/html
Southern_Rocky_Mountains_burn_probability_and_risk_metadata.txt 31.38 KB text/plain

Purpose

To predict spatial and temporal patterns of wildfire burn probability and risk to homes in the Southern Rocky Mountains with 1 km resolution on a monthly time step from 1984 through 2019.

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
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1990 - 2019

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9237EQ3

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