April 28th to April 30th, 2025
Discounted early-bird registration is available until February 28th.
BurnP3+ is the Canadian Forest Service’s latest generation of open-source software for forecasting wildfire risk across a landscape. Building upon the 20-year history of its predecessor, Burn-P3, the new BurnP3+ platform allows users to simulate wildfire ignitions, burning conditions, and fire growth using a choice of alternative fire growth models. Results are summarized across many individual fire simulations, allowing end users to compare wildfire risk across alternative “what-if” scenarios.
Run collaboratively by scientists from the Canadian Forest Service’s Northern Forestry Centre and ApexRMS, this course offers a hands-on opportunity for participants to learn the fundamentals of developing and running spatially-explicit wildfire risk models using BurnP3+. Attendees will also have the opportunity to explore practical applications of BurnP3+, and to network with CFS wildfire scientists, the BurnP3+ model development team, and other industry peers.
Key topics to be covered:
Overview of wildfire burn probability modelling
Configuring model inputs to build wildfire risk models using BurnP3+
Generating and comparing alternative wildfire risk scenarios in BurnP3+
Scripting BurnP3+ modelling workflows using the R programming language
Visualizing and sharing model results by publishing BurnP3+ libraries to the web
