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BC Wildfire Threat Modelling: Introducing an Exciting New Provincial Dataset
Thu, Apr 16
|Virtual Event hosted with Google Meet
BC has wildfire threat datasets – but are they telling us the full picture? In the first of a two-part series, Frontera unveils a newly developed province-wide wildfire threat dataset, unpacking how it was built, what it reveals, and how it stacks up against existing tools. Bring your questions!
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PDT
Virtual Event hosted with Google Meet
About the event
Wildfire threat and risk modelling sit at the heart of community resilience planning – shaping how forest fuel management units are designed and how within-treatment recommendations are developed. Yet the process of estimating and determining wildfire threat and risk remains an actively debated area of professional forestry, and one worth continued discussion and study.
This is the first webinar in a two-part series — Examining Wildfire Threat Data: Provincial, Regional, and Community Perspectives. Webinar 1 focuses on the provincial scale, where Webinar 2 will drill down into regional and community-level applications.
In this 90-minute session, Holden Payne and Nicholas Soverel introduce Frontera's newly developed province-wide wildfire threat dataset for BC — unpacking how it was built, what it reveals, and how it compares to existing tools. What to expect:
A review of what wildfire modelling and prediction is, how datasets are produced, and their inherent strengths and weaknesses.
A comparison of…