The Southern Group of State Foresters recently completed a multi-state wildland fire risk assessment for the 13 Southern states that allows agencies and organizations at the national, state, and local levels to obtain a clearer picture of what the overall potential is for wildland fire and its associated problems. This project is called the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (SWRA).

Sanborn Map Company (Colorado Springs, CO) is the primary contractor working with the Texas Forest Service in conducting the assessment and establishing a technical platform for on-going use of project data and results. Fire Program Solutions (Sandy, OR) is the fuels and fire subject matter experts in the project working for Sanborn.

The USDA Forest Service, Southern Region is comprised of thirteen, (13) states known as the Southern States. These thirteen states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The fire managers of the Southern Region face a complex problem that is compounded by increasing fire intensities due to accumulation of vegetative materials, continued residential growth into wildland fire-prone areas, and increasing firefighting costs.

A project overview can be downloaded by clicking on the following link.