Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• This thesis discusses the impact that average household income levels have on the wildfire risk of wildland-urban interface communities. Sources of information included spatial fire risk data from the Colorado State Forest Service Wildfire Risk Assessment Project (Colorado 2016), social vulnerability data from the county Social Vulnerability Index (SOVI), and socioeconomic data from the U.S. Census Bureau (US 2015). The study found that communities with higher income vulnerability levels do not typically have higher wildfire risk levels. Moreover, the individual community income vulnerability levels do not match the county income vulnerability levels that they are in. Accordingly, county vulnerability levels are not a good indicator of community vulnerability levels, and the fire risk in each of these communities is not correlated with the income vulnerability category of the community.

Creator

• Pellouchoud, Kelsea J.

Date Awarded

• 2016-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Environmental Studies

Advisor

• Veblen, Thomas

Committee Member

• Tierney, Kathleen
• Miller, Dale

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Subject

• Fire risk
• Social vulnerability
• Environmental vulnerability
• Community wildfire threat
• Income
• SOVI Index Score

Last Modified

• 2019-12-02

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relationships

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• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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