Know what’s at stake
Throughout this series, we’ve explored how Vibrant Planet helps you identify landscape features, view wildfire hazard, and build planning areas. Now we will consider how the wildfire hazard interacts with identified SARAs to determine risk.
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Vibrant Planet displays the wildfire hazard (burn probability x intensity) for your entire landscape (picture 1 above) and then considers the interaction of a hazard with all SARAs on your landscape (picture 2 above) and calculates the wildfire risk to those SARAs (picture 3 above).
As we have previously covered, wildfire hazard is the probability that a fire will occur in a specific geographic location and the predicted intensity of that potential wildfire. Risk is the likelihood of the wildfire hazard to decrease the value of a single or multiple SARAs. Each SARA has a unique set of response functions to every class of wildfire hazard.
Vibrant Planet exposes each SARA to the wildfire hazard and determines the risk to that SARA’s value if no management were to occur. This also means that you can isolate and consider risk to specific objective categories of SARAs.
In the picture above Vibrant Planet displays the wildfire risk for a specific category of SARAs (safety).
In the next section we will explore the management options available as you plan across your landscape.