When a fire begins to burn a forest with an urban development in it, that subdivision just becomes so much fuel for the fire.
At the time it said: “The threat posed by WUI fires is growing as urban areas expand into wildlands, rural areas increase in population, and wildfires become more frequent and severe due to climate change. In the coming decades, the risk of WUI fire is expected to increase both in regions of Canada with a long history of wildfires and in those with no such history.”
When those developments are built, she continued, many of its occupants are not anticipating climate change and droughts and atypical springs such as the one Canada is experiencing. But ase continues to change global weather patterns, the frequency and severity of wildfires is also increasing. “Rather than a wildfire control problem, we have a problem with homes and structures that are way too easily ignited by small embers or just creeping low flames,” said Alan Westhaver, a wildland urban fire expert, and the owner of ForestWise Environmental Consulting. “And that needs to be our point of attack. And that’s what wildfire risk mitigation is all about.”
FireSmart also makes recommendations for the actual structure of the house — sidings and roofing that are less flammable and screens over outside vents. The aforementioned National Research Council guide, he said, contains a slew of recommendations for developers for planning communities that mitigate the risk of fire damage — things like reducing the area of the community in contact with the forest, planning golf courses or big box stores on the outskirts as de facto fire breaks, and even carefully planning what kinds of trees are planted in the community.
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