Colorado wildland urban interface hazard assessment: methodology

Abstract

The Colorado Wildland Urban Interface Hazard Assessment builds on the work of earlier hazard methodologies and provides new and updated data to further enhance accuracy and scale. A better, more accurate housing density surface was created to assist in ranking the Wildland Urban Interface hazard. This assessment also includes all of the counties in Colorado, including the eastern plains counties, which were previously omitted. The final outputs are a Risk, Hazard, and Value (RHV) map displaying areas of concern that are at risk of catastrophic wildland fire.