2003122610054300FALSE20040126100854002004012610085400{648359BB-BD05-462F-8010-02CDDEBF9A69}Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800enFollowing the disastrous 1980 fire season, Senator Ayala introduced legislation which required the Director of CDF to zone all State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands in accordance with the degree of severity of fire hazard. The purpose of the zoning was for identifying measures to be taken to retard the rate of spreading and to reduce the potential intensity of uncontrolled fires that threaten to destroy resources, life, or property. Each zone was "to embrace relatively homogeneous lands and shall be based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, and other relevant factors present" (PRC 4201-4204). The final maps were adopted into regulation as Section 1280 of CCR Title 14 on March 12, 1985. The end result was that each "Fire Hazard Severity Zone (FHSZ)" received one of three ratings: Moderate, High, or Very High. The original data from 1985 was digitized into a GIS format. These data have been overlain with the most current "official" SRA data (1998) to give FHSZs on current SRA.Given the limitations and age of this data, it has very limited utility. Examination of this data suggests that little effort was made to standardize zoning procedures between ranger units. There are cases where ranger units that might be expected to have similar hazard characteristics appear to be much different in terms of FHSZs. For example, there are ranger units zoned exclusively as Very High while an adjacent unit has a variety of zones of different ratings. There are also cases where ratings change abruptly at ranger unit boundaries. These inconsistencies are a direct result of a lack of procedural standardization, and could be due to different long-term planning periods, different interpretation of fuel models, or the level of detail used to map the various zones.FRAP1985firehazvector digital datahttp://frap.cdf.ca.gov/data.htmlpublication date1985CompleteAs needed-124.504865-113.49779642.06905632.423438-373886.881105540099.435280-604696.000000449894.875000HazardFireFire SuppressionFire HistoryFirehistoryMEAR77California1985nonenoneArcInfo CoverageFRAP Dave SapsisFire and Fuel Specialist916-227-1338916-227-2672Dave_Sapsis@fire.ca.govUnclassifiedMicrosoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800firehaz-373886.881105540099.43528449894.875-6046961-124.504865-113.49779642.06905632.4234381enFGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial MetadataFGDC-STD-001-1998local timeDave SapsisFRAPmailing and physical addressSacramentoCA95814

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USA916-227-2672Fire and Fuel Specialist9216-227-1338Dave_Sapsis@fire.ca.gov20040126http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata ProfileISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0datasetDownloadable Data13.73513.735002file://\\KERNCOG02\SYS\GIS\unprocessed\chris\kern_mear\final\hazards\firehazLocal Area Network13.735ArcInfo CoverageVectorSimpleArcFALSE40512FALSEFALSEComplete chain40512SimpleLabelFALSE19939FALSEFALSELabel point19939SimplePolygonTRUE19939FALSEFALSEGT-polygon composed of chains19939SimpleTicFALSE369FALSEFALSEPoint369AnnotationFALSE52FALSEFALSELabel point5240512199391993936952firehaz.patFeature Class19939FIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.AREA818Float5Area of feature in internal units squared.ESRIPositive real numbers that are automatically generated.PERIMETER818Float5Perimeter of feature in internal units.ESRIPositive real numbers that are automatically generated.FIREHAZ#45BinaryInternal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.FIREHAZ-ID45BinaryUser-defined feature number.ESRISEVERITY1010Character20040126GCS_North_American_1927North_American_1927_Alberscoordinate pairmeters0.0020480.002048Albers Conical Equal Area34.00000040.500000-120.0000000.0000000.000000-4000000.000000North American Datum of 1927Clarke 18666378206.400000294.978698North_American_1927_Albers