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Flagstaff Fire Department outlines wildfire risk, modeling and code updates
Summary
The Flagstaff Fire Department described fire-ecology science, new modeling tools to map likely wildfire pathways into neighborhoods, and proposals to update building and wildland-urban-interface codes to reduce structure loss.
The Flagstaff Fire Department presented science and modeling intended to reduce wildfire risk to both forested lands and neighborhoods and urged coordinated action across community development, state agencies and federal funding programs.
Neil Chapman, wildland fire captain for the City of Flagstaff, described how a century of fire suppression and exclusion of Indigenous cultural burning has increased vertical forest fuels and shifted low-severity fires into higher-severity risk. “Those are good fires. They’re stimulating nutrient cycling,” Chapman…
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