Predicting and Controlling Wildfire Spread
- Room: 253B, 2nd Floor, ACC North
Wednesday, June 11, 2025: 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
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Description
Analysis of recent disaster fires shows that five ingredients are necessary for a fire to transition from vegetative wildfire to an urban disaster with city-scale losses: sustained strong winds, rapid fire spread through vegetation, structures that lack defensible space and home hardening at points of entry, delayed or overtaxed firefighting response, and tightly-spaced and contiguous structural fuels. In this session, former Fire Chief Dave Winnacker will share critical factors necessary to slow the spread of wildfire, and how the design and construction of new wildfire adapted master planned communities can serve to create non-burnable buffers that are protected from wildfire loss and also provide risk reduction benefits to existing vulnerable neighborhoods.
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