The relative impacts of vegetation, topography and spatial arrangement on building loss to wildfires in case studies of California and Colorado

Patricia M. Alexandre; Susan I. Stewart; Miranda H. Mockrin; Nicholas S. Keuler; Alexandra D. Syphard; Avi Bar-Massada; Murray K. Clayton; Volker C. Radeloff

doi:10.1007/s10980-015-0257-6

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The relative impacts of vegetation, topography and spatial arrangement on building loss to wildfires in case studies of California and Colorado

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Alexandre, Patricia M.; Stewart, Susan I.; Mockrin, Miranda H.; Keuler, Nicholas S.; Syphard, Alexandra D.; Bar-Massada, Avi; Clayton, Murray K.; Radeloff, Volker C.

Year Published

2015

Publication

Landscape Ecology. 31: 415-430.

Abstract

Wildfires destroy thousands of buildings every year in the wildland urban interface. However, fire typically only destroys a fraction of the buildings within a given fire perimeter, suggesting more could be done to mitigate risk if we understood how to configure residential landscapes so that both people and buildings could survive fire.

Keywords

WUI; building loss; wildfires; FRAGSTATS; logistic regression; best-subsets

Citation

Alexandre, Patricia M.; Stewart, Susan I.; Mockrin, Miranda H.; Keuler, Nicholas S.; Syphard, Alexandra D.; Bar-Massada, Avi; Clayton, Murray K.; Radeloff, Volker C. 2016. The relative impacts of vegetation, topography and spatial arrangement on building loss to wildfires in case studies of California and Colorado. Landscape Ecology. 31: 415-430.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-015-0257-6.

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