A graph-based optimization framework for firebreak planning in wildfire-prone landscapes
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Abstract
Firebreaks and fuel treatments are critical means for the reduction of wildfire threat and damage to human infrastructure in forest landscapes. However, the uncertain behavior of wildfires makes the planning of firebreaks challenging, especially when available resources are insufficient to treat all locations under wildfire threat. We present a fire propagation graph approach that utilizes directed acyclic graphs to track the possible spread of wildfires from their ignition locations and estimate the impacts of firebreak placement on the possible burn area. The fire propagation graphs depict plausible fire spread within the fire footprints created with a spatial fire growth model. We integrated the fire propagation graph concept into an optimization model that allocates firebreaks in a complex landscape. We compared two firebreak planning strategies. The first strategy reduces the overall connectivity between patches with fuel and minimizes the number of location pairs between which wildfire spread is possible. The second strategy minimizes the possible burn area across the landscape by tracking the impact of firebreaks on the potential fire spread through a large set of fire propagation graphs that depict plausible fire scenarios. We also evaluated the problem that combines both strategies. We illustrated the approach with the planning of wildfire mitigation measures in the Red Rock-Prairie Creek area of Canada, a complex fire-prone landscape. The firebreak solutions were effectively able to reduce both the potential burn area and the connectivity between locations with fuel. The graph-based depiction of the uncertain wildfire spread helped assess the landscape-level impacts of local firebreak allocation decisions and uncover the tradeoffs between different firebreak planning strategies. The approach could assist wildfire mitigation planning in other regions. • We introduce a graph-based measure to characterize potential fire spread. • Using the fire propagation graph concept, we compare two firebreak allocation strategies. • First strategy reduces the expected burn area and associated damage in the area. • Second strategy reduces the chances of fires to spread across the landscape. • We compare each strategy with the problem that combines both planning approaches.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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