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Social vulnerability of the people exposed to wildfires in U.S. West Coast states

Published:2023-09-22 Issue:38 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Modaresi Rad Arash¹^ORCID,Abatzoglou John T.²^ORCID,Fleishman Erica³^ORCID,Mockrin Miranda H.⁴^ORCID,Radeloff Volker C.⁵^ORCID,Pourmohamad Yavar¹^ORCID,Cattau Megan⁶^ORCID,Johnson J. Michael⁷^ORCID,Higuera Philip⁸^ORCID,Nauslar Nicholas J.⁹,Sadegh Mojtaba¹¹⁰^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA.

2. Management of Complex Systems Department, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.

3. College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.

4. Northern Research Station, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Baltimore, MD, USA.

5. SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

6. Human-Environment Systems, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA.

7. Lynker Technologies LLC, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

8. Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.

9. Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID, USA.

10. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Understanding of the vulnerability of populations exposed to wildfires is limited. We used an index from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess the social vulnerability of populations exposed to wildfire from 2000–2021 in California, Oregon, and Washington, which accounted for 90% of exposures in the western United States. The number of people exposed to fire from 2000–2010 to 2011–2021 increased substantially, with the largest increase, nearly 250%, for people with high social vulnerability. In Oregon and Washington, a higher percentage of exposed people were highly vulnerable (>40%) than in California (~8%). Increased social vulnerability of populations in burned areas was the primary contributor to increased exposure of the highly vulnerable in California, whereas encroachment of wildfires on vulnerable populations was the primary contributor in Oregon and Washington. Our results emphasize the importance of integrating the vulnerability of at-risk populations in wildfire mitigation and adaptation plans.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adh4615

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