Review of Wildfire Management Techniques—Part II: Urgent Call for Investment in Research and Development of Preventative Solutions

Jazebi, Saeed; León, Francisco de; Nelson, Albert

doi:10.1109/tpwrd.2019.2930095

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“…Thus, wildfire management not only needs to reduce and prevent direct anthropogenic fire sources, but also needs to deal with changes in environmental risks such as human-induced climate change. Effective fire management therefore requires a comprehensive and near-real-time analysis of fire risks in the local natural environment, the scope and intensity of human activities, and the distribution of combustible fuels 10 .…”

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Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to 2019

Banerjee

2021

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The environmental pollution, property losses and casualties caused by wildfires in California are getting worse by the year. To minimize the interference of wildfires on economic and social development, and formulate targeted mitigation strategies, it is imperative to understand the scale and extent of previous wildfire occurrences. In this study, we first investigated the temporal distributions of past wildfires in California divided by size and causes and analyzed the changes observed in the past two decades against the last century. The trend of wildfires in different time scales (yearly and monthly), as well as the distribution of wildfires across different spatial scales (administrative units, climate divisions in California from 2000 to 2019) were also studied. Furthermore, to extract the significant variables on the risk of wildfire occurrence, multivariate analyses of environmental and human-related variables with wildfire densities were carried out. The results show that the wildfire density distribution of the burned area in California conforms to the characteristics of the Pareto distribution. Over the past two decades, the frequency of small (< 500 acres), human-caused wildfires has increased most rapidly, and they are widely distributed in central and western California. The wildfire season has lengthened and the peak months have been advanced from August to July. In terms of the variables related to the risk of wildfire occurrence, the temperature, vapor pressure deficit, grass cover, and the distance to roads are crucial. This study reveals the relationship between environmental and social background conditions and the spatial-temporal distribution of wildfires, which can provide a reference for wildfire management, the formulation of future targeted wildfire emergency plans, and the planning of future land use in California.

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Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to 2019

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2021

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“…From the perspective of the utility industry, monitoring apparatus is as important as monitoring power systems. For example, the consequence resulted from power line caused forest fire can be as devastating as that caused by instability related generator/load trips [38]. In fact, apparatus condition monitoring has become a significant R&D activity among equipment manufacturers.…”

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Synchronized Waveforms – A Frontier of Data-Based Power System and Apparatus Monitoring, Protection, and Control

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IEEE Trans. Power Delivery

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1 -Voltage and current waveforms contain the most authentic and granular information on the behaviors of power systems. In recent years, it has become possible to synchronize waveform data measured from different locations. Thus largescale coordinated analyses of multiple waveforms over a wide area are within our reach. This development could unleash a set of new concepts, strategies, and tools for monitoring, protecting, and controlling power systems and apparatuses. This paper presents an in-depth review and analysis of the advancements in synchronized waveform data, including measurement devices, data characteristics, use cases, and comparisons with synchrophasor data. Based on the findings, five strategies are proposed to discover and develop synchronized waveform based applications over multiple application areas. The paper also presents three complementary measurement platforms and two data screening algorithms for application implementation. It further discusses committee activities and standard developments useful to explore the full potential of the data.

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“…However, they can be effectively detected by fuses and relays or be mitigated by fast circuit breakers and fault current limiters (FCLs). On the other hand, high-impedance faults due to their low current amplitude are extremely challenging to be detected with existing technologies, so they are a major driver of devastating large-scale wildfires caused by power grids [20,21,49].…”

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“…However, there is a limited number of review papers on wildfire management in relation to power systems. The most relevant review work was presented in an informative two-part paper in [20,21]. In [20], a review on different fields of science and industrial projects related to wildfire issues was presented.…”

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“…In [20], a review on different fields of science and industrial projects related to wildfire issues was presented. In [21], available technical solutions to minimize or prevent wildfires caused by power networks were reviewed. Our work is different from [21,21] in three ways: a) we provide a thematic review from a risk and resilience perspective and propose a framework to find the gap in the literature of various research areas within the proposed theme; b) we provide a broader perspective by reviewing the relevant research work from power systems engineering, forest management, social sciences, and economics of disasters to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue among research communities; c) In addition to preventive measures before a wildfire, we also review research work related to managing the wildfire during and after a disaster runs its course.…”

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Three Lines of Defense for Wildfire Risk Management in Electric Power Grids: A Review

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Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The electric power grid is specifically among the built environments most affected by, and contributing to, wildfires. In this paper, we propose a three lines of defense (3LD) framework for wildfire risk management in electric power infrastructure and review the literature from this lens. An overview of the physics and phenomenology of the wildfires as it relates to power grids is presented, and the logic for the proposed 3LD framework is discussed. The reviewed literature based on the 3LD theme includes the most relevant and emerging research work on wildfire prevention as the first line of defense, wildfire mitigation and proactive response as the second line of defense, and wildfire recovery preparedness as the third line of defense. This study reveals that while the state of the art, to a large extent, stands comprehensive in various aspects of power system resilience and wildfire risk management, there is a gap in the literature in addressing this emerging risk in a holistic, interdisciplinary approach.

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Review of Wildfire Management Techniques—Part II: Urgent Call for Investment in Research and Development of Preventative Solutions

Cited by 32 publications

References 25 publications

Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to 2019

Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to 2019

Synchronized Waveforms – A Frontier of Data-Based Power System and Apparatus Monitoring, Protection, and Control

Three Lines of Defense for Wildfire Risk Management in Electric Power Grids: A Review

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