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The City of Louisville, wildfire risk assessment, was developed using output from the 2022 Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA), also called the Wildfire Risk Viewer, which is part of the Forest Atlas suite of modeling tools developed by the Colorado State Forest Service. The fire behavior model outputs include burn probability and flame length, which are used to characterize the fire hazard.
Wildfire vulnerability is the potential impact of fire on a community’s resources, which is defined as the product of exposure and susceptibility in risk assessments. The City’s resources were categorized into three groups: public lands, building facility grounds, and water facility grounds. Additionally, two non-City resources were categorized to quantify wildfire risk to and from adjacent properties and landscapes: the wildland-urban interface (WUI), and other public and private lands.
Wildfire risk was calculated for the City of Louisville and adjacent areas using the wildfire hazard and vulnerability datasets developed for this project.
Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment
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Story Map
Below is an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap, a map in the context of narrative text and other multimedia content, detailing the wildfire mitigation treatments completed on City of Louisville Open Space lands. Click on the image to view the full story map.
History
2023 Project Objectives
Develop a comprehensive Wildfire Hazard Risk Assessment, including the identification of hazards and risks and the development of mitigation opportunities for Louisville's public lands to be more resilient against future events.
Wildfire Risk Assessment Open House
The Wildfire Risk Assessment open house was held on February 6, 2023 at the Louisville Recreation & Senior Center (900 West Via Appia, Louisville, Colorado 80027). A presentation from the City’s Consultant was made to help the community understand the scope of work and to solicit input on concerns with mitigation efforts on public lands. Objective of Consultant’s work is to learn about the City’s Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment of Louisville public lands, which seeks to identify hazards and risks and development of mitigation opportunities for public lands, and gather public feedback.
The City’s Open Space management objectives for properties are in a manner consistent with good stewardship and sound ecological principles that benefits citizens of Louisville by promoting native plants, wildlife, wildlife and plant habitat, cultural resources, agriculture and scenic vistas and appropriate passive recreation while implementing mitigation activities to reduce the impact on the community of potential future wildfires.