Aspen area’s fire risk to be assessed with new models

Aspen area’s fire risk to be assessed with new models

A fire model that has been able to predict wildfire movement across vegetation and the built-environment, meaning downtown and residential areas, with close to 90% accuracy will be assessing the Aspen area this year.  Hussam Mahmoud, PhD, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, has built a model that retroactively assesses fires like those in Lahaina and the Marshall Fire in Superior, Colorado, among othe…