LA County Station Fire 2009

With this map I wanted to analyze the fire danger level for the significant ecological areas and determine the risk level. In hind sight I would have created an additional table to to join that ranked the danger level for these ecological areas and determined what was significant about the ecology of the area (since it was such an ambiguous layer title and there was no additional data to interpret about these areas.) to help determine the environmental impact if these areas were to become fuel for a fire.

This was going to be the first map of a series detailing the air quality and air pollution associated with the Station Fire

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ArcGIS Online

http://metamorphic.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c8363bec07e74bb1bb1b8531da704db2

The pattern I chose to communicate with this exercise is the correlation between the predicted climate change and the increased wildfire potential. As one can see, where the predicted climate change model lines up very well with the wildfire potential in 2012, which is highly visible when adjusting the transparency on either layer. The correlation is very distinguishable.

            I chose to demonstrate climate change and wildfires for a couple of reasons; our final project is about the largest wildfire in LA County history, and climate change is one of the most important issues for us to try our best to comprehend. This was a fairly easy make to pull together thanks to the ArcGIS Online tools and layer available to anyone interested in exploring the mapping process. As I am afforded more opportunities to work with the ArcGIS programs, I am developing a deep affection for this company and am looking forward to meeting some of the people that create these programs.