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Oregon Wildfire Risk Explorer

The Wildfire Risk Explorer digital library aims to make information about Oregon's wildfire risks available to users. The portal was developed in response to the statewide Communities-At-Risk (CAR) Assessment completed by the Oregon Department of Forestry in 2005 and a need to support Community Wildfire Protection Planning. Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) are developed by communities in areas at risk from wildfire.
Featured Tools:

• Wildfire Risk Rating Reporter: Identify acres of high, medium and low wildfire risk for areas of interest
• WUI Reporter: Identify acres of Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) for specific CWPP communities in an area of interest
• ScholarsArchive@OSU: Access archived community wildfire protection plans, wildfire research reports, and other related publications.
• Oregon Explorer Map Viewer: Access CAR data with online GIS mapping tools

Specific goals of the Wildfire Risk Explorer are to:

• Provide access to all the GIS data used to develop Oregon's 2005 Statewide Communities -At-Risk Assessment
• Enable users to produce reports on known wildfire risk for specific areas of interest
• Offer a place to organize, archive and access community wildfire protection plans in an existing digital repository (ScholarsArchive)\

The Wildfire Risk Explorer was developed for use by local citizens, community wildfire protection planners, community groups and wildfire agency staff to learn and make informed decisions about known wildfire risks in Oregon.