Fire Science Show
Fire Science Show
Wojciech Wegrzynski
222 - Integrating WUI risk management and fire safety engineering with Pascale Vacca
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 7:00 am.
Why Fire Engineers in Wildfires
Pascal Vacca’s Framework Overview
Scales of WUI Risk and Roles
Risk Assessment: Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability
Modeling Fire Approaching Buildings
From FARSITE Outputs to FDS Inputs
Fuels, Maps, Moisture, and Gaps
Weather Scenarios and Worst Case Logic
Planning Mitigation: Structure and Landscape
Prevention and Execution with Stakeholders
Communities, Insurance, and Feasibility
Preparedness Culture and Tools
Apps, Scoring Risk, and Feedback
Reassessment Cycles and Change
Response Support and Shelter-in-Place
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In this episode we try to demonstrate another step in integrating fire engineering into WUI risk management, and vice versa. These two areas together form some sort of fire engineering method, which I strongly believe will be an important part of our profession in the future. Today I got to sit down with Dr. Pascale Vacca from UPC to unpack a practical, end-to-end framework for wildland–urban interface risk that engineers can use today, which she has shared in her keynote at the ESFSS Confere...