Technical Workshop: Quantify the Role of Wildfire in Driving Flood Frequency

Sunday, May 18, 2025

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT)

Room: Room 5

Instructor(s)

Guo Yu

Assistant Research Professor
Desert Research Institute, Nevada, United States
Rose Marie Shillito

USACE ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, United States
Markus Berli

Desert Research Institute, United States
Julianne Miller

Desert Research Institute, United States
Ian Floyd

USACE ERDC, United States

Post-wildfire floods can be unexpectedly destructive and pose significant threats public safety and water security, particularly in the western United States. However, we currently lack tools that accurately estimate flood hazards after wildfires.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce a process-based framework that can be used to estimate the frequency and severity of post-wildfire floods as well as to provide hands on practices to calculate the effects of wildfire on flood frequencies at a small watershed (42 km2) in southern California.