BLANDFIRE

An attempt at simulating the spread of forest fires using GIS data for elevation, wind, and fuel.

This project is maintained by maxcdietrich

Welcome to BLANDFIRE

Created by Max Dietrich, Shawn Albertson, and Florian Michael-Schwarzinger

We simulated forest fires near the Yosemite Valley in Python

The spread of forest fires is driven by nuanced geographic parameters, such as

We built our model based on the Alexandridis et. al. model presented in 2008. We retrieved GIS data from various sources and adapted the results for python so we could create our own simulation. We hope you can engage with our code by downloading it as instructed on the User instructions page.

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