FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface
To inform proactive management actions supporting community resilience to wildfires, we developed a new software package called FireLossRate. This package in R helps the user to compute wildfire impacts on residential structures at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). The package integrates spatial i...
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| author | Vittorio Nicoletta Raphaël D． Chavardès Ahmad Abo El Ezz Anne Cotton-Gagnon Valérie Bélanger Jonathan Boucher |
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| description | To inform proactive management actions supporting community resilience to wildfires, we developed a new software package called FireLossRate. This package in R helps the user to compute wildfire impacts on residential structures at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). The package integrates spatial information about exposed structures, empirical equations that estimate the loss rate of structures affected by wildfires as a function of fireline intensity and distance from fire edge with fire growth modeling outputs from fire simulation software and burn probability models. FireLossRate helps to quantify and produce spatially explicit data on structural exposure and loss for single and multiple fires. The package automates post hoc analyses on simulations that include single or multiple wildfires and enables result mapping when combined with other packages available in R. In this paper, we describe the functionality of the FireLossRate package and introduce users to the interpretation of impact indicators of wildfires at the WUI. FireLossRate is available for download at https://github.com/LFCFireLab/FireLossRate. • FireLossRate allows the computation of wildfire impacts indicators on residential structures at the Wildland Urban Interface in support of community fire risk management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8305474ab3bc4989853483e7bc3b3a622023-06-24T05:17:49ZengElsevierMethodsX2215-01612023-01-0110102238FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban InterfaceVittorio Nicoletta0Raphaël D． Chavardès1Ahmad Abo El Ezz2Anne Cotton-Gagnon3Valérie Bélanger4Jonathan Boucher5Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Gestion des Opérations et de la Logistique, HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaLaurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, QC, Canada; Atlantic Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, NB, CanadaÉcole de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, QC, CanadaLaurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, QC, CanadaDépartement de Gestion des Opérations et de la Logistique, HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaLaurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, QC, Canada; Corresponding author.To inform proactive management actions supporting community resilience to wildfires, we developed a new software package called FireLossRate. This package in R helps the user to compute wildfire impacts on residential structures at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). The package integrates spatial information about exposed structures, empirical equations that estimate the loss rate of structures affected by wildfires as a function of fireline intensity and distance from fire edge with fire growth modeling outputs from fire simulation software and burn probability models. FireLossRate helps to quantify and produce spatially explicit data on structural exposure and loss for single and multiple fires. The package automates post hoc analyses on simulations that include single or multiple wildfires and enables result mapping when combined with other packages available in R. In this paper, we describe the functionality of the FireLossRate package and introduce users to the interpretation of impact indicators of wildfires at the WUI. FireLossRate is available for download at https://github.com/LFCFireLab/FireLossRate. • FireLossRate allows the computation of wildfire impacts indicators on residential structures at the Wildland Urban Interface in support of community fire risk management.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016123002352Fire loss rate computation |
| spellingShingle | Vittorio Nicoletta Raphaël D． Chavardès Ahmad Abo El Ezz Anne Cotton-Gagnon Valérie Bélanger Jonathan Boucher FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface MethodsX Fire loss rate computation |
| title | FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface |
| title_full | FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface |
| title_fullStr | FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface |
| title_full_unstemmed | FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface |
| title_short | FireLossRate: An R package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the Wildland Urban Interface |
| title_sort | firelossrate an r package to estimate the loss rate of residential structures affected by wildfires at the wildland urban interface |
| topic | Fire loss rate computation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016123002352 |
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