Abstract
 Firewise Modeling in the Wildland/Urban Interface with ArcGIS Track: EMS/Fire Author(s): Mike Price Since 1999, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Firewise Communities have applied GIS to map, understand, and enhance safety and quality of life issues in the WUI. Field assessments, guided by NFPA WUI Standard 1144, rate the condition and survivability of homes and other structures in the Interface. GIS provides an excellent toolset to merge home assessments with natural resource data, creating and analyzing comprehensive maps and models. This presentation will show how ArcGIS 9 and the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions were applied to model natural resource criteria including terrain, slope, aspect, vegetation, and fuels. It will show steps used to combine natural information with structural data and values at risk criteria to build comprehensive community assessments. It will demonstrate how to develop a structure point set from building footprints, and how to combine slope, aspect, fuels, and other information with the structure points. Samples of Interface maps prepared by several Firewise ArcView Communities will be shown. Mike Price Entrada/San Juan, Inc. PO Box 853 Moab , UT 84532 US Phone: 435-260-8243 E-mail: mike_price@frontiernet.net |
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