Adapting to Wildfire: Rebuilding After Home Loss

Mockrin, Miranda H.; Stewart, Susan I.; Radeloff, Volker C.; Hammer, Roger B.; Alexandre, P

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1014596

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“…Alexandre et al 2014), remain untested. For example, although post-fire rebuilding rates vary, they do not appear to follow easily identifiable geographic or ecological patterns (Alexandre et al 2014), and may be related to social conditions, local policies or individual-level resources (Mockrin et al 2015). Measures such as these would aid in refining both vulnerability indices themselves and our broader understanding of social vulnerability to wildfire.…”

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Places where wildfire potential and social vulnerability coincide in the coterminous United States

Wigtil

Hammer

Kline

et al. 2016

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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The hazards-of-place model posits that vulnerability to environmental hazards depends on both biophysical and social factors. Biophysical factors determine where wildfire potential is elevated, whereas social factors determine where and how people are affected by wildfire. We evaluated place vulnerability to wildfire hazards in the coterminous US. We developed a social vulnerability index using principal component analysis and evaluated it against existing measures of wildfire potential and wildland-urban interface designations. We created maps showing the coincidence of social vulnerability and wildfire potential to identify places according to their vulnerability to wildfire. We found that places with high wildfire potential have, on average, lower social vulnerability than other places, but nearly 10% of all housing in places with high wildfire potential also exhibits high social vulnerability. We summarised our data by states to evaluate trends at a subnational level. Although some regions, such as the South-east, had more housing in places with high wildfire vulnerability, other regions, such as the upper Midwest, exhibited higher rates of vulnerability than expected. Our results can help to inform wildfire prevention, mitigation and recovery planning, as well as reduce wildfire hazards affecting vulnerable places and populations.

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Places where wildfire potential and social vulnerability coincide in the coterminous United States

Wigtil

Hammer

Kline

et al. 2016

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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“…However, recent work has found that the experience of being evacuated was positively related to perceived wildfire probability but not perceived consequences . A recent qualitative study of individuals who lost their homes in the Fourmile Fire in Boulder, CO, found that most of the study participants thought that both the probability of a fire occurring and the risk to their (rebuilt) home went down after the fire …”

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“…(15) A recent qualitative study of individuals who lost their homes in the Fourmile Fire in Boulder, CO, found that most of the study participants thought that both the probability of a fire occurring and the risk to their (rebuilt) home went down after the fire. (16) To our knowledge, only a few studies have examined the relationship between perceived risk and experience over time. For example, Cross (17) found stability in hurricane risk perceptions over time, whereas Baker and Shaw (18) and Shaw and Baker (19) found a slight decrease in perceived risk one year after a major disaster compared to immediately after the event.…”

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Is Seeing Believing? Perceptions of Wildfire Risk Over Time

Champ

Brenkert–Smith

2015

Risk Analysis

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Ongoing challenges to understanding how hazard exposure and disaster experiences influence perceived risk lead us to ask: Is seeing believing? We approach risk perception by attending to two components of overall risk perception: perceived probability of an event occurring and perceived consequences if an event occurs. Using a two-period longitudinal data set collected from a survey of homeowners living in a fire-prone area of Colorado, we find that study participants' initial high levels of perceived probability and consequences of a wildfire did not change substantially after extreme wildfire events in the intervening years. More specifically, perceived probability of a wildfire changed very little, whereas the perceived consequences of a wildfire went up a bit. In addition, models of risk perceptions show that the two components of overall risk perception are correlated with somewhat different factors, and experience is not found to be one of the strongest correlates with perceived risk. These results reflect the importance of distinguishing the components of overall risk and modeling them separately to facilitate additional insights into the complexities of risk perceptions, factors related to perceived risk, and change in risk perceptions over time.

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“…Research on behavioral response generally focuses on shorter term coping behaviors before, during, and after stages of the disaster cycle, and includes mitigation activities and determinants of such hazard-related behaviors before an event (e.g., structural improvements, vegetation reduction around the home) (Martin et al 2009, Brenkert-Smith et al 2012, Dickinson et al 2015 and preparedness activities and their determinants (e.g., evacuation planning) (Cohn et al 2006, Jakes et al 2007, Paveglio et al 2010. And finally, limited work examines factors that influence the trajectories of recovery and likelihood of rebuilding after a disaster (Mockrin et al 2015) that may contribute to a shift from coping to adaptation. Notably, some research argues that behaviors that are typically characterized as part of the hazard/disaster cycle function as key tenets of creating fire-adapted communities (Calkin et al 2014).…”

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Where you stand depends on where you sit: qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation

Brenkert–Smith¹,

Meldrum²,

Champ³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression paradigm that seeks to control fire to a paradigm that focuses on "living with" and "adapting to" wildfire. In this study, we seek insights into what it means to adapt to wildfire from a range of stakeholders whose efforts contribute to the management of wildfire. Study participants provided insights into the meaning, relevance, and use of the concept of fire adaptation as it relates to their wildfire-related activities. A key finding of this investigation suggests that social scale is of key importance in the conceptualization and understanding of adaptation for participating stakeholders. Indeed, where you stand in terms of understandings of fire adaptation depends in large part on where you sit.

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Adapting to Wildfire: Rebuilding After Home Loss

Cited by 40 publications

References 29 publications

Places where wildfire potential and social vulnerability coincide in the coterminous United States

Places where wildfire potential and social vulnerability coincide in the coterminous United States

Is Seeing Believing? Perceptions of Wildfire Risk Over Time

Where you stand depends on where you sit: qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation

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