Innovation: Hackathon Work - Fort Nelson VaR 25 km buffer creation

[NicolasLivanos]

Describe the task

Ben's proposed next steps for our Innovation Sprint

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Create a 25 km buffer from all Fort Nelson Hotspots. Timeline of interest: SEP 1, 2024 to OCT 31, 2024
• [ ] Populate Values at Risk around these buffers
• [ ] Identify N, S, E, W wind quadrants around fire similar to:

Additional context

• Link to Fire Data: Lens: A Map of Canadian Wildfire Data
• Or here

[nealmcloughlin]

This approach is similar to what was developed during the hackathon with a couple key differences. The hackathon focused on using a weather forecast to buffer out active segments of a fire perimeter according to the wind direction and wind speed. These acceptance criteria do not use a weather forecast and instead buffer out active segments of a fire perimeter to a specified distance (25 km). The heuristic for determining what segments of a fire perimeter are active are also different. I recall the hackathon work used hotspots from the past week (or few days). These acceptance criteria would use all hotspots from the last month of the fire season. Finally, the hackathon was focused on what could be impacted by fire in the next 5 to 10 days. These acceptance criteria are focused on what could be impacted if there are 2024 holdover fires that continue to spread in the spring of 2025.