Montana Wildfires and Wildfire Risk
Description
This data explores the connection between recent wildfires in the state of Montana and the risk level of areas in which those wildfires occurred.
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Steps to reproduce
Wildfire Risk data is from Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Recent fires are represented by orange circles which increase in size as the acreage affected by the fire increases. Recent Wildfire Data was digitized by copying information from Inciweb’s Wildfires page into a google sheet, and importing that data into ArcGIS Pro. Risk is divided into low, moderate, high, very high, and extreme categories, represented by colors ranging from green for low risk to orange for high risk. Risk is determined by probability of a fire occurring, expected intensity of the fire, likelihood of an area or resource to be exposed to fire, and susceptibility of an area or resource to burning.
Institutions
- Drew University