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Utah Fire Risk

Harmonizes fire behavior fuel models, winter precipitation projections, historical burned areas, and building footprints for Utah to assess fire risk factors.

Prompt

"recreate the colorado fire risk example but for utah in epsg:5070"

Datasets

Layer Type URL
FBFM40 Fuel Models raster https://www.landfire.gov/data-downloads/CONUS_LF2024/LF2024_FBFM40_CONUS.zip
Winter Precipitation (CCSM4 RCP8.5) raster https://thredds.northwestknowledge.net/thredds/dodsC/agg_macav2metdata_pr_CCSM4_r6i1p1_rcp85_2006_2099_CONUS_monthly.nc
MTBS Burned Areas vector https://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/downloads/sciweb1/shared/MTBS_Fire/data/composite_data/burned_area_extent_shapefile/mtbs_perimeter_data.zip
Building Footprints vector https://minedbuildings.z5.web.core.windows.net/legacy/usbuildings-v2/Utah.geojson.zip

Target grid: EPSG:5070 · extent (-1581748.3, 1629453.6, -1085516.0, 2250700.3) · resolution 270 m

What Was Harmonized

  • FBFM40 fuel models resampled using nearest-neighbor (categorical data)
  • MACAv2 winter precipitation averaged over Dec–Mar months, resampled using bilinear interpolation
  • MTBS burned area boundaries kept as vector, clipped to Utah state boundary
  • Building footprints rasterized to presence/absence at 270 m resolution
  • All outputs clipped to actual Utah state polygon (not just bounding box)

Result

Harmonized visualization for utah_fire_risk

Reproduce It

From the repo root:

python workflows/utah_fire_risk/utah_harmonization.py

Outputs are saved to workflows/utah_fire_risk/output/.

Source

Script: workflows/utah_fire_risk/utah_harmonization.py