Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Stakeholder-driven Challenges and Opportunities for Wildfire Mitigation and Preparedness

荒地火灾事件对农村地区的社区和生态系统有着特别重大的影响。这些地区的许多居民缺乏财力来应对和减轻荒地火灾事件的影响。这种情况在美国南部大部分地区尤其如此，那里的社会和文化背景对救灾和减灾提出了独特的挑战。该项目制定计划，调查荒地火灾对美国南部不断增长的荒地-城市界面（WUI）的影响，并有助于了解这一关键区域的独特动态。这项研究提供了科学和实践的见解，以推动有关荒地火灾事件的讨论，将其作为增强社区复原力的机制。该项目采用利益相关者驱动的方法来整理数据和资源，作为对日益突出但仍不充分了解的野火危害和人类住区问题进行持续科学调查的基础。该项目涉及召集和主持一系列研究人员、从业者和其他利益相关者之间的对话，讨论荒地火灾风险，并探索美国南部成功减轻、管理和应对荒地火灾危害的关键问题。研究团队收集有关美国南部当前野火计划、法规以及行政和通信结构的信息。区域更好地了解与荒地火灾风险相关的治理，并调查野火对建筑环境、响应系统以及响应人员和当地社区的健康的潜在风险。研究目标是：（1）通过实践者和学术讨论确定南方荒地火灾缓解的主要挑战； (2) 评估美国南部将荒地火灾风险管理纳入计划和法规的情况； (3) 通过公私利益相关者的准备和响应规划以及协调来了解社区的复原力，以增强野火之前、期间和之后的医疗服务。在气候变化加剧风险和不确定性的情况下，对美国南部的地理关注反映了研究团队更广泛的意图，即增强未充分研究和可能准备不足的地区的野火相关知识和能力。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Wildland fire events have particularly significant impacts on communities and ecosystems in rural areas. Many residents in these areas lack the financial resources to cope with and mitigate the impacts of wildland fire events. This context is particularly the case in much of the Southern United States where social and cultural contexts present unique challenges for disaster response and mitigation. This project develops plans to investigate the impacts of wildland fire in the growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) in the Southern United States and contributes to the understanding of the unique dynamics in this critical zone. This research provides both scientific and practical insight to advance the discourse on wildland fire events as a mechanism to enhance community resilience. The project uses a stakeholder driven approach to collate data and resources as a foundation for continued scientific investigation of increasingly prominent yet still insufficiently understood issues surrounding wildfire hazards and human settlement.This project involves convening and moderating conversations among a range of researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders to discuss wildland fire risk and explore key issues for successfully mitigating, managing, and living with wildland fire hazards in the Southern U.S. The research team gathers information on current wildfire plans, regulations, and administrative and communications structures in the region to better understand governance as related to wildland fire risk and investigate potential risks of wildfire to the built environment, response systems, and the health of responders and local communities. The research objectives are to: (1) identify key challenges to wildland fire mitigation in the South through practitioner and academic discussions; (2) assess the integration of wildland fire risk management in plans and regulations in the Southern United States; and (3) understand community resilience through preparedness and response planning and coordination of public-private stakeholders to enhance healthcare access before, during and after a wildfire. The geographic focus on the U.S. South reflects the researcher team’s broader intent to augment wildfire-related knowledge and capabilities of understudied and potentially underprepared regions as climate change amplifies risk and uncertainty.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.