Featured Article:
Strengthening Alaska’s Wildfire Resilience Through Cross-Sector Collaboration
Our latest research explores how collaboration among electric utilities, emergency management agencies, public health and healthcare organizations, transportation agencies, and wildfire professionals strengthens community resilience before, during, and after wildfire events. Based on in-depth stakeholder interviews across Alaska, the study reveals that proactive partnerships, effective information sharing, and sustained stakeholder engagement are essential for improving decision-making and building more resilient communities in the face of increasingly complex wildfire risks. Read more:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5309/ae8052/meta
Evaluating Lightning-Caused Wildfire Risk to Alaska’s Power Grid Infrastructure
Our research introduces a data-driven framework for identifying where Alaska’s electric power infrastructure is most vulnerable to lightning-caused wildfires. By combining climate, topographic, lightning, wildfire, and power grid data with machine learning and GIS analysis, the study generates interpretable wildfire risk maps that help electric utilities prioritize mitigation efforts, improve resource allocation, and strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure against a growing wildfire threat. Read more:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11030377