Camp Fire tragedy leads to new wildfire research at UNR
- Kia Rastar
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min read
UNR officials say engineers and scientists are coming together in a new five-year project to develop a comprehensive, holistic, computational live, digital platform to predict and monitor wildfire risk that first responders and utility companies to plan for and use during a wildfire.
The hope is to understand fire risk by using science and technology to reduce the chances that the world would suffer from another wildfire of the Camp Fire magnitude.
The five year project received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s LEAP-HI program. UNR in a news release says “the research project envisions an eventual live, digital platform that evolves with new data and dynamically updates the long-term (seasons/months ahead) to short-term (weeks/days ahead) pre-ignition fire risks at regional and community scales for risk management, and the post-ignition fire behavior at near-real-time (hours-days) for situational awareness.”
