Use future climate scenarios in wildfire planning
#00256
Plan land management, staffing, infrastructure and evacuation against plausible future fire weather instead of relying only on historical seasons and maps.
Parent issue
#00227 Climate change creates hotter, drier and longer wildfire seasons
Sustainable Development Goals
Location
global
Description
Fire agencies, planners and infrastructure operators test decisions against multiple climate and fire-weather scenarios over the lifespan of the asset or plan.
The mechanism is anticipatory: it reveals where historical preparedness margins may fail and supports staged adaptation under uncertainty.
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