Using Cluster Analysis to Measure and Understand Community Risk to Wildfire

• In Event: The Politics of Risk Management

Brief Overview

We pair damage inspection data with residential parcel data to conduct a cluster analysis of 40,000+ California homes exposed to wildfires. We evaluate links among home characteristics, property damage, disadvantaged status, and political capacity.

Authors

• Mark Nepf, University of Washington, Seattle Campus

• Cory Struthers, University of Washington

• Alison Cullen, University of Washington