Publications & Case Studies

ArcFuels Publications

Ager, A.A., Vaillant, N.M., Finney, M.A. 2011. Integrating fire behavior models and geospatial analysis for wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning. Journal of Combustion, Article ID 572452, 19 pages.

Vaillant, N.M., Ager, A.A., Anderson, J. 2013. ArcFuels10 system overview. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-875. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 65 p.

New Publications

Thompson, M.P.; Vaillant, N.M.; Haas, J.R.; Gebert, K.M.; Stockmann, K.D. 2013. Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs. Journal of Forestry. 111(1): 49-58.

Ager, A.A., Vaillant, N.M., Finney, M.A., Preisler, H.K. 2012. Analyzing wildfire exposure and source–sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape. Forest Ecology and Management 267, 271-283.

Presentations

• Dry Forest Workshop at Eagle Crest, October 2009 in Redmond, OR (PDF, 4.2 MB)
• Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG), August 2007 (PDF, 29.9 MB)
• The 25th Annual ESRI International User Conference, July 25-29, 2005 in San Diego, CA (PDF, 28 KB)
• The 26th Annual ESRI International User Conference, August 7-11, 2006 in San Diego, CA (PDF, 217KB)
• 2006 IAWF Conference Portland OR—How to Measure Success (PDF, 1.0 MB)
• National RapidSpot Workshop on Landscape Fuel Treatment Design using ArcFuels, Portland, OR; November 6-8, 2007
  

Case Studies

• Joint Fire Science Brief - ArcFuels (PDF, 715 KB)
• PNW Science Findings - Forests at Risk: Integrating Risk Science into Fuel Management Strategies (PDF, 1.16 MB)
• New Risk Tools: The Emergence and Potential of New Wildfire Risk Assessment Tools (PDF, 753 KB)
• Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs.
• Challenges and Approaches in Planning Fuel Treatments across Fire-Excluded Forested Landscapes (PDF, 683 KB)
• A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Modeling wildfire risk to northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) habitat in Central Oregon, USA (PDF, 1.98 MB)
• A simulation study of thinning and fuel treatments on a wildland–urban interface in eastern Oregon, USA (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• Modeling the effects of thinning on bark beetle impacts and wildfire potential in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon (PDF, 1.0 MB)
• A Wildfire Risk Modeling System for Evaluating Landscape Fuel Treatment Strategies (PDF, 590 KB)

Additional Risk Assessment Papers

• Calkin, D., Ager, A.A., Thompson, M., 2011. A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report. In, Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-262. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 63 p.
• Calkin, D.E., Ager, A.A., Gilbertson-Day, J., Scott, J.H., Finney, M.A., Schrader-Patton, C., Quigley, T.M., Strittholt, J.R., Kaiden, J.D., 2010. Wildfire risk and hazard: procedures for the first approximation. In, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO., Gen. Tech. Rep., GTR-RMRS-235. 62 p.
• Calkin, D.E., Finney, M.A., Ager, A.A., Thompson, M.P., Gebert, K.G., 2011. Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for federal wildland fire policy and decision making in the United States. Forest Policy and Economics 13, 378-389.
• Thompson, M., Calkin, D., Finney, M., Ager, A., Gilbertson-Day, J., 2011. Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 25, 761-780
• Lee, D.C., Ager, A.A., Calkin, D.E., Finney, M.A., Thompson, M.P., Quigley, T.M., McHugh, C.W., 2011. Appendix A: Comparative Risk Assessment. In A national cohesive wildland fire management strategy, report to Congress. Appendix A. 13 p.

Western Wildland Environmental
Threat Assessment Center
3160 NE Third St.
Prineville, OR 97754
P (541) 416-6583
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Updated: November 14 , 2011

Contact Information

Nicole Vaillant
Phone: 541-416-6600
Email: nvaillant@fs.fed.us

Alan Ager
Phone: 541-969-8683
Email: aager@fs.fed.us

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