Roxborough Park Community Wildfire Evacuation Drill: Data Collection and Model Benchmarking.

ABSTRACT: Wildfires are increasing in scale, frequency and longevity, and are affecting new locations as environmental conditions change. This paper presents a dataset collected during a community evacuation drill performed in Roxborough Park, Colorado (USA) in 2019. This is a wildland-urban interface community including approximately 900 homes. Data concerning several aspects of community response were collected through observations and surveys: initial population location, pre-evacuation times, route use, and arrival times at the evacuation assembly point. Data were used as inputs to benchmark two evacuation models that adopt different modelling approaches. The WUI-NITY platform and the Evacuation Management System model were applied across a range of scenarios where assumptions regarding pre-evac

SUBMITTER: Gwynne SMV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9977886 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature