Wildfire containment objectives and modelling strategies: a case study in Ontario, Canada

Presented by: Kennedy Korkola and Melanie Wheatley

Contact information:

• Kennedy Korkola, PhD Student, University of Toronto. Email: kennedy.korkola@mail.utoronto.ca
• Melanie Wheatley, PhD Student, University of Toronto. Email: melanie.wheatley@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected References:

1. Gordon (2014) Developing more common language, terminology and data standards for wildland fire management in Canada. Available at https://www.ciffc.ca/sites/default/files/2019-03/Developing_More_Common_Terminolgy_-_Final_Report.pdf

2. Beverly JL (2017) Time since prior wildfire affects subsequent fire containment in black spruce. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26, 919–929. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/wf/pdf/WF17051

3. Arienti MC, Cumming SG, Boutin S (2006) Empirical models of forest fire initial attack success probabilities: The effects of fuels, anthropogenic linear features, fire weather, and management. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36, 3155–3166. Available at https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/x06-188

4. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S, Sturdivant RX (2013) ‘Applied Logistic Regression, Third Edition’. (John Wiley & Sons)