Assessing wildfire potential within the wildland-urban interface: A southeastern Ohio example

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-34

  Lein, James K ^a   Stump, Nicole I ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Wildfire potential mapping; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

GIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; MAPPING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58649109556     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Andrews, P., & Bradshaw, L. (1997). FIRES: Fire information retrieval and evaluation system-A program for fire danger rating analysis. General technical report INT-GTR-367, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 64pp.
2. Boerner, R., & Sutherland, E. K., Physiography, geology, and soil classification. In H. Hutchinson, & E.K. Sutherland (Eds.), Characteristics of mixed-oak forest ecosystems in southern Ohio prior to the reintroduction to fire, USDA Forest Service Gen, 2003. Technical report NE-299.
3. Boerner R., Morris E., Decker K., and Hutchison T. Soil and forest floor characteristics. In: Hutchinson H., and Sutherland E. (Eds). Characteristics of mixed-oak forest ecosystems in southern Ohio prior to the reintroduction to fire (2003), USDA Forest Service General technical report NE-299
4. Brose P., Schuler T., Van Lear D., and Berst J. Bringing fire back: the changing regimes of the Appalachian mixed oak forests. Journal of Forestry 99 (2001) 30-35
5. Campbell J. Introduction to remote sensing (2007), Guilford Press, New York 625pp
6. Chuvieco E., and Salas J. Mapping the spatial distribution of forest fire danger using GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 10 (1996) 333-345
7. Cohen J. Preventing disaster: home ignitability in the wildland-urban interface. Journal of Forestry 98 (2000) 15-21
8. Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS). (2002). Colorado wildland urban interface hazard assessment methodology. .
9. Erten E., Kurgun V., and Musaoglu Ne. Forest fire risk zone mapping from satellite imagery and GIS case study. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 4 (2002) 1-10
10. Frelich L. Forest dynamics and disturbance regimes: Studies from temperate evergreen-deciduous forests (2002), Cambridge University Press, New York
11. Friesen L. Impacts of urbanization on plant and bird communities in forest ecosystems. Forestry Chronicle 74 (1998) 855-860
12. Haight R., Cleland D., Hammer R., Radeloff V., and Rupp T. Assessing fire risk in the wildland-urban interface. Journal of Forestry 102 (2004) 41-48
13. Kaplan R., and Austin M. Out in the country: sprawl and the quest for nature nearby. Landscape and Urban Planning 69 (2004) 235-243
14. Leete, B. (1938). Forest fires in Ohio 1923 to 1935. Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. Bulletin 598.
15. Lein J. Environmental decision making: An information technology approach (1997), Blackwell Science, Malden, MA 213pp
16. Lein J. Toward the rapid characterization of the built environment within the wildland-urban interface: a soft classification strategy. GIScience and Remote Sensing 43 (2006) 179-196
17. McCune B. Improved estimates of incident radiation and heat load using non-parametric regression against topographic variables. Journal of Vegetation Science 18 (2007) 751-754
18. ODNR, (2004). Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry. Wildfire in Ohio. .
19. Prestemon J., Pye J., Butry D., Holms T., and Mercer D. Understanding broad scale wildfire risks in human-dominated landscapes. Forest Science 48 (2002) 685-693
20. Redeloff V., Hammer R., Stewart S., Fried J., Holcomb S., and McKeefry J. The wildland-urban interface in the United State. Ecological Applications 15 (2005) 799-805
21. Slocum T., McMaster R., Kessler F., and Howard H. Thematic cartography and geographic visualization (2005), Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 518pp
22. Stewart, S., Radeloof, V., & Hammer, R. (2003). Characteristics and location of the wildland-urban interface. In Proceedings of the second international wildland fire ecology and fire management workshop, November 16-20, Orlando, FL.
23. Sutherland, E. (1997). History of fire in a southern Ohio second-growth mixed-oak forest. In S. Pallardy, R. Cecich, H. Garrett, & P. Johnson (Eds.). Proceedings of the 11th central hardwood forest conference, Columbia, Mo. USDA Forest. Service. General technical report NC-188. pp. 172-183.
24. Teie, W., & Weatherford, B. (2000). Fire in the west: The wildland/urban interface fire problem. Report to the Council of Western State Foresters, Deer Valley Press, Rescue, CA.
25. Theobald D., Miller J., and Hobbs N. Estimating the cumulative effects of development on wildlife habitat. Landscape and Urban Planning 39 (1997) 25-36
26. VDOF (2003). Virginia Department of Forestry. Geographic Information Systems. Wildfire Risk Assessment. .
27. Viegas, D., Allgöwer, N., & Eftichidis, G. (2003). Fire spread and the wildland urban interface problem. In Proceedings: Forest fires in the wildland-urban interface and rural areas in Europe, Athens, Greece, pp. 22-34.
28. Wayne National Forest (WNF). (2003). Prescribed Fire Program Environmental Assessment Wayne National Forest. .
29. Webster C. GIS and the scientific inputs to planning: part ii-prediction and prescription. Environmental and Planning B: Planning and Design 21 (1994) 145-157