Housing arrangement and location determine the likelihood of housing loss due to wildfire

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Syphard, Alexandra D ^a   Keeley, Jon E ^b,c   Massada, Avi Bar ^d   Brennan, Teresa J ^b   Radeloff, Volker C ^d  

^a Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HERB; HISTORY; HOUSING; HOUSING ARRANGEMENT; HOUSING LOSS; LAND USE; PLANNING; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WOOD; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CALIFORNIA; FIRES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84859025192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033954     Document Type: Article

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