A Fire-Aware Strea Alication to Integrate National Fire and Water Databases Presenter Katharine Kolb, Geograher, USGS – FESCH.TV

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4th Annual Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Virtual Workshop – Oct 4-7, 2021

This talk will introduce the new StreamStats Fire-Hydrology application, currently in development. Two main effects of wildfires on hydrology are increased runoff and decreased water quality. After a wildfire, there is a greater potential for flooding, erosion, and transport of sediment and increased nutrient and metal concentrations to public water supplies, leading to higher water treatment costs and potential to impact water availability, as well as stream habitat degradation. The StreamStats Fire-Hydrology application provides actionable intelligence to stakeholders in the wildland fire, local government, and science communities in a more streamlined fashion. The application integrates watershed delineation capabilities with fire perimeter and burn severity layers to calculate post-burn peak flows, as well as provides stream tracing to identify affected streams and stream gages.