Wildfire Behavior and Hazard Maps for Santa Barbara County, California

A 10.2 GB data package from the Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council includes modeled wildfire behavior and hazard maps for Santa Barbara County, California. Marc Mayes authored this project, which used multiple fire weather scenarios and ecological fuel loadings. The data was produced to support the Lompoc Valley Community Wildfire Protection Plan and a Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment.

Use Cases

• Modeling wildfire spread and intensity based on described hazardous fire weather scenarios.
• Creating community wildfire protection plans based on updated hazard maps.
• Conducting quantitative wildfire risk assessments based on the described methodology.
• Analyzing fire hazards across different climax ecological community fuel loadings.

Strengths

• Data package size is 10.2 GB, indicating a substantial volume of information.
• Project was funded by a specific council (Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council) and involved a named collaborator (Spatial Informatics Group-Natural Assets Laboratory).
• Explicitly supports a formal planning document (Lompoc Valley Community Wildfire Protection Plan).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data is packaged in TAR and PDF formats, which may require specific tools for extraction and analysis.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Informatics Group-Natural Assets Laboratory, contracted by the Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council.

Collection Method

Modeling based on multiple hazardous fire weather scenarios and climax ecological community fuel loadings.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 22:02:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Santa Barbara County, California, USA.