Prepare, Respond, Renew : GIS for Wildland Fire.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Preparedness -- Ranking wildfire risks to protect valuable places / US National Park Service -- Maps can help save us from climate-fueled wildfires / CAL FIRE and Technosylva -- Embracing apps to better prepare for emergencies / Tucson Northwest Fire District -- Students protect the unhoused from wildfires / Anderson W. Clark Magnet High School -- From paper to pixels: Rethinking community wildfire protection plans / Esri -- Part 2: Mitigation -- As the ways we fight wildfires change, so will the forests themselves / Esri and Technosylva -- Maps guide work to reduce wildfire impacts / Ashland Fire & Rescue -- Targeted grazing: How cows protect communities from wildfire / Government of British Columbia, Canada -- Part 3: Response -- Real-time wildfire awareness emerges from firefighter cloud collaboration / US National Interagency Fire Center -- Applying new predictive and tactical tools to fight ferocious fires / CAL FIRE -- Real-time tool transforms wildfire field operations / Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources -- Volunteers track quickly spreading wildfires / #FireMappers -- Revamping wildfire resilience after devastating fires / Portugal National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection -- Part 4: Recovery and rehabilitation -- Mapping a climate-resilient fire recovery plan / US Bureau of Land Management and American Forests -- Using GIS to help clean up debris after natural disasters / CDR Maguire -- Next Steps.

Discover a geographic approach to resilience strategies for wildland fire.

Wildfires claim lives, destroy structures, and devastate communities and landscapes. The increasing areas where development meets nature—and more days of hot and dry weather—have magnified the impact of wildfires from Canada to Australia and around the world. The response to and recovery from increasingly complex firestorms stress budgets, economies, communities, and environments.

Increasingly, responders use the latest tools of geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze wildfires through data that can be modeled to visualize threats in real time. Prepare, Respond, Renew: GIS for Wildland Fire explores a collection of real-life stories about wildland fire agencies successfully using GIS technology for preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery and rehabilitation workflows. Preemptively, GIS helps firefighters model how wildfires spread depending on weather, geologic features, and human development. Through predictive analytics and mapping technologies, firefighters can model the direction and rate of spread of wildfire and give a community, a nature preserve, a fire department, or a single homeowner time to prepare for or even prevent the next wildland fire. As they identify priorities and reduce fire vulnerabilities, agencies can visualize, record, and track the status of their accomplishments in the field.

The book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for wildland fire management. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas, and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.