Wildfire Mitigation Is a Risk Management Strategy That Begins at Ground Zero
September 18, 2023
Wildfire hazard mitigation is a multi-faceted approach to affect meaningful change. But mitigation begins in Zone 0.
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Dr. Tom Jeffery, Ph.D., is a senior hazard scientist for CoreLogic Location Science. He is the lead scientist working on the development of CoreLogic’s deterministic wildfire risk model. He works closely with many of the top 100 U.S. insurance companies to help implement our hazard risk models into their automated underwriting and pricing systems.
Prior to CoreLogic, Tom was a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, specializing in GIS, cartography, and remote sensing. He is a nationally recognized leader in wildfire risk modeling and has been involved in brushfire modeling since the 1990s. He earned his bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, his master’s degree in geography from Western Illinois University, and his doctorate in geography from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Wildfire hazard mitigation is a multi-faceted approach to affect meaningful change. But mitigation begins in Zone 0.
Over the past several years, the United States has experienced record-breaking wildfires. In 2018 alone, a total of 8,767,492 acres burned – an area roughly
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