Evaluating Rural Pacific Northwest Towns for Wildfire Evacuation Vulnerability

Database
Published in: 2021
USDA Forest Service

This map shows wildfire evacuation vulnerability rankings for 696 rural communities in Oregon and Washington. For each community there are 7 rankings: four representing road network vulnerability, two representing vulnerability to wildfire, and an overall vulnerability ranking. Rank of 1 represents the highest vulnerability.

Please see the following journal article for details:

Dye, A.W., J.B. Kim, A. McEvoy, F. Fang and K.L. Riley. 2021. Evaluating rural Pacific Northwest towns for wildfire evacuation vulnerability. Natural Hazards, 2021.