Welcome to the Citywide Wildfire Evacuation Time Estimation Tool

Our mission is to save lives using data science. For this project, we hope to help communities respond to wildfires by providing resources for planning and mitigation.

Motivation

Camp Fire in Paradise, California, 2018

In November of 2018, the town of Paradise California was consumed by the Camp Fire.

Since then the frequency and intensity of wildfires has increased in the United States. To help decision makers across the US make informed decisions about evacuations during wildfires, we have created tools that:

• estimate the time needed to evacuate a city
• determine the connectivity of roadways within cities
• determine the resilience of roadway networks when areas are congested or occluded by obstacles

Services

Evacuation time estimates, connectivity and resiliance metrics can be visualized with the interactive map below.

 

Research

Currently, research efforts are focused on estimating roadway capacities during wildfire evacuations.

The Team

Bill has BS, MS and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering with emphasis in Transportation Engineering. Bill extensive experience in analyzing empirical data and evaluating the validity of the findings from transportation simulation studies. Bill expects to graduate from MIDS program in April of 2021.

Rajiv has over 2 decades of experience in various leadership roles in financial services. His expertise is in trading and risk systems development. Rajiv expects to graduate from the MIDS program in spring 2021

David is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University. He helps farmers produce healthy crops with a variety of tools. Like Bill and Rajiv, David expects to graduate from the MIDS program in April of 2021.

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