New York, New York, Feb 27-Mar 3, 2001.
Wild fire represents one of the most destructive forms of disturbance in southern California.
In this paper we describe an integrated program for assessing fire hazard that combines mesoscale models to forecast fire weather, remote sensing to map fuels and live fuel moisture and GIS to evaluate evacuation hazard based on street networks. Evacuation hazard is evaluated using a GIS model that incorporates road networks and urban population. Examples are provided from study sites in the Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Barbara front range.