What Is the Price of Catastrophic Wildfire?
Abstract
We modeled and analyzed the economic impacts of the six weeks of large, catastrophic wildfires in northeastern Florida in June and July 1998, among Florida's most devastating in recent history. The result of the unusually strong El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in 1998, the Florida wildfires produced economic impacts of at least $600 million, similar in scale to recent category-2 hurricanes. Improved understanding of the interactions between management, wildfire, and its costs may yield large payoffs to society by identifying optimal intervention activities.
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The severity of the effect of smoke from wildland fires on health is still not well understood.
“The consensus of the literature is that smoke from wildland fires has deleterious effects on the health of people exposed to it, but the severity of that effect is still not well understood.”
From The costs and losses of wildfires: a literature survey (2017) · cites this paper as [28]
The consensus of the literature is that smoke from wildland fires has deleterious effects on the health of people exposed to it.
“The consensus of the literature is that smoke from wildland fires has deleterious effects on the health of people exposed to it, but the severity of that effect is still not well understood.”
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The economic losses due to the deaths of civilians and firefighters have not been adequately analyzed in the literature.
“The economic losses due to the deaths of civilians and firefighters have not been adequately analyzed in the literature, 62 however there are some national estimates.”
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- Authors
- Butry, D. T., Mercer, E. D., Prestemon, J. P., Pye, J. M., & Holmes, T. P.
- Affiliations
- US Forest Service (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Forestry
- Published
- 2001-11-01
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 9-17
- ISSN
- 0022-1201 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-3746
- OpenAlex
- W2396504750
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 2.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Forestry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Keywords
- catastrophic wildfires, ENSO, wildfire management
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