What Is the Price of Catastrophic Wildfire?
By D. Butry, D. Mercer, J. Prestemon, J. Pye, T. Holmes. Journal of Forests, 2001
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We modeled and analyzed the economic impacts of the six weeks of large, catastrophic wildfires in northeastern Florida in June and July 1998, among Florida's most devastating in recent history. The result of the unusually strong El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in 1998, the Florida wildfires produced economic impacts of at least $600 million, similar in scale to recent category-2 hurricanes. Improved understanding of the interactions between management, wildfire, and its costs may yield large payoffs to society by identifying optimal intervention activities.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change
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- Uncertainty and risk in wildland fire management: a review. (2011, background): “response can include monetary value (e.g., Brillinger et al., 2009; Crowley et al., 2009; Konoshima et al., 2008; Spring et al., 2008; Butry et al., 2001), structure loss (e.”
- The hidden cost of wildfires: Economic valuation of health effects of wildfire smoke exposure in Southern California (2012, methodology): “The authors cited two studies which have attempted to quantify the economic cost of the health impacts of wildfire smoke, Butry et al. (2001) and Rittmaster et al. (2006), and concluded that further research needs to be done to allow estimation of health impacts from wildfire program activities.”
- Understanding Broadscale Wildfire Risks in a Human-Dominated Landscape (2002, background): “Future research might more successfully characterize the WUI’s influence by explicitly accounting for varying road network density, the number of houses located within forests, the amount of land dedicated to agriculture, and the degree of suppression effort expended by communities, homeowners, and ”