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Fire hazard and risk assessments have gained popularity in determining the performance of alternative approaches to prescriptive regulations and in justification of proposed changes to regulations and referenced standards.  While risk is the preferred methodology, often the probabilities needed are not available and cannot be estimated, resulting in a default to hazard assessment.  In other cases society is hazard averse, and hazard assessment is the preferable approach.  In either case, our fire science staff uses these assessments to develop a decision-support system for interpreting data and synthesizing information to evaluate fuel conditions and potential fire impacts and to prioritize subwatersheds (or firesheds) for fuels treatments.

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