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  • Environmental Science
  • Risk Management
  • Computational Science

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  • Assessing wildfire risk mitigation effectiveness is challenging.
  • Quantifying avoided impacts from fuel treatments is particularly complex.
  • Existing methods struggle to accurately measure performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce probabilistic counterfactual analysis for evaluating wildfire risk mitigation.
  • To demonstrate a framework for quantifying avoided impacts.
  • To apply the framework to fuel treatment scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing insights from disaster risk mitigation and climate event attribution.
  • Employing ensemble wildfire simulations for analysis.
  • Reanalyzing existing fire simulation data from New Mexico.

Main Results:

  • Probabilistic counterfactual analysis provides a robust method for performance evaluation.
  • Treated landscapes exhibited a lower fire risk compared to untreated scenarios.
  • The approach is applicable for both post-event and pre-event assessments.

Conclusions:

  • Counterfactual analysis is a valuable tool for wildfire risk mitigation.
  • The framework can inform future fuel treatment planning and evaluation.
  • Further theoretical and methodological expansions are proposed.