Wake County Hazard Mitigation Plan - January 2020

SECTION 4: RISK ASSESSMENT

each pixel, the number of times that cell was burned by a modeled fire, divided by the total number of annual weather scenarios simulated. The simulations are calibrated to historical fire size distributions. The Burn Probability for Wake County is presented in Table 4.84 and illustrated in Fig. Table 4.84 – Burn Probability, Wake County

Class

Acres

Percent

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

146,796 125,323 59,446 25,400

39.8 % 34.0 % 16.1 %

6.9 % 3.2 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.0 % 0.0 %

11,763

0 0 0 0 0

10

Total

368,728

100.0 %

Source: Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment

Wake County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2019

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