Hazards of Risk: Identifying Plausible Community Wildfire Disasters in Low-Frequency Fire Regimes

Optimized wildfire risk reduction strategies are generally not resilient in the event of unanticipated, or very rare events, presenting a hazard in risk assessments which otherwise rely on actuarial, mean-based statistics to characterize risk. This hazard of actuarial approaches to wildfire risk is...

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Main Authors: Andy McEvoy, Becky K. Kerns, John B. Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Forests
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/7/934