The newspaper turned to Randall Hauser, ENPLAN's CEO and founder, and Catalina Llanos, a senior geospatial technologist at the time, for ways to illustrate fire dangers in 2019.Īlso lending their expertise were Donald Burk, a botanist and ENPLAN's director of environmental services, and Nicola Brown and Nick von Beroldingen, geospatial technologists with the firm.Īs the mapping progressed, ENPLAN invited Fire Capt. Wildfires threaten Redding homes near dense vegetation: Is your home at risk?ĮNPLAN is a nearly 40-year-old company that specializes in environmental planning using geographic information systems (GIS) and other geospatial technology using resources from around the world. Regional Executive Editor Silas Lyons recalled that during the height of the Car Fire, actually the morning of July 26, 2018, in the hours before the blaze tore into the city limits, he asked for and received permission from the Redding firm ENPLAN for access to its valuable wildfire viewer map to aid in coverage. Would there be a way to quantify the acres and find out what the large landowners are doing about it, if anything? The project that hatched a digital map showing high fire hazards in and around Redding began nearly a year ago in brainstorming sessions for post-Carr Fire stories.Įditors and reporters at the Record Searchlight wanted to know that with all of the open space in Redding, how much of that land - overgrown brush and trees mixed with equally flammable dead tree limbs - is potentially ready to burn. Watch Video: Creating the map of Redding's wildfire risks
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