MCDM-Based Wildfire Risk Assessment: A Case Study on the State of Arizona

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25510%2F23%3A39921000" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25510/23:39921000 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/12/449" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/12/449</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire6120449" target="_blank" >10.3390/fire6120449</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

MCDM-Based Wildfire Risk Assessment: A Case Study on the State of Arizona

Original language description

The increasing frequency of wildfires has posed significant challenges to communities worldwide. The effectiveness of all aspects of disaster management depends on a credible estimation of the prevailing risk. Risk, the product of a hazard’s likelihood and its potential consequences, encompasses the probability of hazard occurrence, the exposure of assets to these hazards, existing vulnerabilities that amplify the consequences, and the capacity to manage, mitigate, and recover from their consequences. This paper employs the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework, which produces reliable results and allows for the customization of the relative importance of factors based on expert opinions. Utilizing the AROMAN algorithm, the study ranks counties in the state of Arizona according to their wildfire risk, drawing upon 25 factors categorized into expected annual loss, community resilience, and social vulnerability. A sensitivity analysis demonstrates the stability of the results when model parameters are altered, reinforcing the robustness of this approach in disaster risk assessment. While the paper primarily focuses on enhancing the safety of human communities in the context of wildfires, it highlights the versatility of the methodology, which can be applied to other natural hazards and accommodate more subjective risk and safety assessments

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Fire-Switzerland

ISSN

2571-6255

e-ISSN

2571-6255

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

001135931400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85180675499