Population Directly Affected by Wildfire
This indicator reports the percent of population that lives in a census block that intersects with a wildfire perimeter for fires the occured between 2010 and 2020.
Source
Source Description
The Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems is a non-profit research organization that integrates the social, physical, and biological sciences to better understand human, natural resource, and environmental issues and problems. Based at the University of Missouri, CARES utitlizes the latest technologies in geographic information systems, satellite imagery, environmental modeling, and the internet to compile, analyze and distribute information about our world.
Methodology
This layer displays population change from 2010-2020, and the percent of the population affected by wildfires in the area. The percent of population affected by wildfire was calculated by intersecting 2020 census block centroids with wildfire perimeters from 2011-2020. Any block whose centroid interesected with a perimeter is considered ‘affected’, and the population of those blocks are aggregated to the various geographies of analysis. Wildfire perimeter data was aquired from the National Interagency Fire Center, and population changes were calculated by CARES from data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.