Applying Landscape Principles to Fire Hazard Reduction

Fire spreads in a specifically spatial manner, which suggests the applicability of percolation models to the risk reduction problem. It is shown that under fairly general conditions a threshold exists below which a landscape becomes essentially fireproof. Arranging treated acres into a grid, analogous to bulkheads on a ship, drastically reduces the acreage that must be treated to achieve a fireproof condition.

Keywords: Fire Protection

Pages: 8

Publisher: Elsevier

Category: Fire

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