A wildfire hazard rating model for residential structures within and around the forest areas: The case of Antalya Forestry Regional Directorate

It is important to evaluate structure ignition risk during a wildland fire, i.e. wildfire hazard rating studies. At this study, “Linear Combination” approach in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, which is a method based on mathematical combination, was adopted for wildfire hazard rating method. First, it would establish a set of weights for each of the primary criteria and sub-criteria. It was found that the “pairwise comparison” approach in AHP technique was very useful for this aim. So different wildland fire experts’ judgments would be specified by using this approach, and the weights of the primary criteria and sub-criteria were evaluated with respect to judgments made by different wildland fire experts. Later on, multiple criteria analysis, i.e. Linear Combination technique, was used to combine the primary criteria and sub-criteria. Building type 4 that had 2,313 total fire hazard points was building type that had the highest fire hazard ratio among building types that had “high fire hazard ratio”. Holiday village 2 that had 1,895 total fire hazard points was building type that had the highest fire hazard ratio among building types that had “middle fire hazard ratio”. There was no building type that had “low fire hazard ratio”