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The Wildfire Risk to Structures polygon map for the three-county area provides a spatially explicit ranking for 10-acre hexagons, assigning each hexagon with a ranking for wildfire hazard and a ranking for housing density. Hexagons with high housing density and high wildfire hazard are of greatest concern.

The Wildfire Risk to Structures and Classified Wildfire Hazard data products presented here are designed for land managers and fire responders who are interested in relative rankings of wildfire risk and wildfire hazard. The risk and hazard map products are modeled outputs based on the best available data. As such, they provide one interpretation of risk and hazard that is based on a set of input variables and decision rules (see the methods section below). Though we are using the best available input data, modeling wildfire risk and hazard is not an exact science, and these data should be used with this in mind. These data are meant to be used as reference datasets for planning purposes. Appropriate uses for Wildfire Risk to Structures dataset is to help to identify areas that have structures at risk from wildfire. This information can be used for prioritizing fuel reduction projects, for planning suppression activities, and for targeting areas for activities to increase ignition resistance of structures. In addition, the Classified Wildfire Hazard raster can be used to assess the risk to other values (such as evacuation routes, sensitive natural or cultural resources, and water storage/delivery infrastructure).

These are screening level data products created from remotely sensed data and modeling. On the ground knowledge and local expertise (where available) should take precedence over these data products for the detailed work of site-specific planning and implementation of fuel reduction projects in the three-county area.

Table 1 shows the locations for downloading the three-county wildfire hazard raster and the wildfire risk to structures polygon dataset.

1. Table 1. Data availability for three-county wildfire hazard and wildfire risk to structures

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