Evaluating Oregon Communities at Risk using the Wildfire Risk Explorer GIS in Action 2007 Vancouver, Washington April 18, 2007 Kuuipo Walsh Institute for Natural Resources

Natural Resources Digital Library Vision Oregon Explorer™ as the “go to” place for natural resources information Create a “purposeful” digital library Information and map- making tools to help people learn about and make better natural resource decisions throughout the State Address importance of “place” and access to geo-referenced information Oregon Explorer Public Release in June 2007

Wildfire Risk Explorer Released in October Funded by ODF

Wildfire Risk Explorer Users: Natural resource decision-makers Community Wildfire Protection Planners Wildfire Protection Agencies Land Management Agencies At-risk communities Homeowners Landowners Interested citizens

Exploring Wildfire Risk in Your Area Wildfire Risk in Your Area Select a Community …

Mitchel City community has a rating of high risk

Generating a report with the statistics wizard

Choose between a report on overall fire risk rating & Total acres of wildland urban interface

Choose the watersheds, counties, or communities you want to evaluate and or compare

Compare and contrast acres at low, medium and high risk

Making a map with the advanced mapping tool

What have we learned We discovered that 201,584 acres were potentially at high-risk in Umatilla county. We discovered that 106,632 acres were potentially at high-risk in Morrow county. The Mitchel City community was rated to be at high risk

For more information, you can contact the Oregon Explorer co-managers Janine Salwasser, OSU Libraries Jimmy Kagan, OSU Institute for Natural Resources