Assess risk

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 HVRAAs to determine risk. 

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 HVRAAs on your landscape (picture 2 above) and calculates the wildfire risk to those HVRAAs (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 HVRAAs. Each HVRAA has a unique set of response functions to every class of wildfire hazard. 

Vibrant Planet exposes each HVRAA to the wildfire hazard and determines the risk to that HVRAA’s value if no management were to occur. This also means that you can isolate and consider risk to specific objective categories of HVRAAs. 

In the picture above Vibrant Planet displays the wildfire risk for a specific category of HVRAAs (safety). 

In the next section we will explore the management options available as you plan across your landscape.