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LAKE COUNTY HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN

Our team has provided direct assistance outlining cascading hazards in the Lake Co. Hazard Mitigation plan. The plan can be found here.

ANNUAL MEETING REPORTS

• 2024 Annual Meeting Report
• 2023 Annual Meeting Report
• 2022 Annual Meeting Report

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

• Stark, T. D., Estes, K. D., Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., Leshchinsky, B. A., & Vahedifard, F. (2026). Objective versus subjective landslide risk: A case of Cache Creek Landslide in California. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 132, 105910.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105910.
• Li, S., Baijnath-Rodino, J. A., York, R. A., Quinn-Davidson, L. N., & Banerjee, T. (2025). Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020. Fire Ecology, 21(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00342-3
• Kellogg, J. M., Vahedifard, F. (2025). Impacts of Wildfires on Geotechnical Properties of Soils. International Journal of Geomechanics, 25(12), 04025293, DOI: 10.1061/IJGNAI/GMENG-10789.
• Ermagun, A., & Janatabadi, F. (2024). Compound risk of wildfire and inaccessible shelters is disproportionately impacting disadvantaged communities. Progress in Disaster Science, 23, 100358.
• Banerjee, T., Katul, G. G., Zahn, E., Dias, N. L., & Bou‐Zeid, E. (2024). A single compartment relaxed eddy accumulation method. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(19), e2024JD040811.
• AghaKouchak, A., Hjelmstad, A., Lucy, J., Duku, J., Sadhasivam, N., Werth, S., Babagiray, S., de Oliveira, D. Y., Boschee, A., Sadegh, M., Vahedifard, F., Abatzoglou, J. T., Turco, M., Ortiz, M. S., Shirzaei, M., Azimi, P., Ferguson, L., & Allen, J. G. (2025). Building urban fire resilience to enhance national security. Nature Cities. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00296-w
• Tao, T. J., Estes, K. D., Holman, E. A., Vahedifard, F., & Silver, R. C. (2025). Understanding climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress: A survey of residents in a high-risk California county during wildfire season. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1), e301331. doi: 10.1136/bmjment-2024-301331.
• Ermagun, A., Thompson, D., Vahedifard, F. Cohen Silver, R. (2025). Emergency managers’ challenges with wildfires and related cascading hazards in California, Journal of Environmental Management, 374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.124008.
• Desai, A., Guilloteau, C., Heilman, W. E., Charney, J. J., Skowronski, N. S., Clark, K. L., … & Banerjee, T. (2024). Investigating Fire–Atmosphere Interaction in a Forest Canopy Using Wavelets. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 190(5), 21.
• Kumar, M., Kosović, B., Nayak, H. P., Porter, W. C., Randerson, J. T., & Banerjee, T. (2024). Evaluating the performance of WRF in simulating winds and surface meteorology during a Southern California wildfire event. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1305124.
• Baijnath-Rodino, J. A., Martinez, A., York, R. A., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., AghaKouchak, A., & Banerjee, T. (2023). Quantifying the effectiveness of shaded fuel breaks from ground-based, aerial, and spaceborne observations. Forest Ecology and Management, 543, 121142.
• Turco, M., Abatzoglou, J.T., Herrera, S., Zhuang, Y., Jerez, S., Lucas, D.D., AghaKouchak, A., & Cvijanovic, I. (2023). Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(25), e2213815120.
• Abdollahi, M., Vahedifard, F., Tracy, F. T. (2023). Post-Wildfire Stability of Unsaturated Hillslopes against Rainfall-Triggered Landslides. Earth’s Future, AGU, 11(3), e2022EF003213. DOI: 10.1029/2022EF003213.
• Baijnath-Rodino, J. A., Le, P. V., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., & Banerjee, T. (2023). Historical spatiotemporal changes in fire danger potential across biomes. Science of the Total Environment, 870, 161954.
• Chowdhuri, S., & Banerjee, T. (2023). Revisiting “bursts” in wall-bounded turbulent flows. Physical Review Fluids, 8, 044606.
• Desai, W., Heilman, N., Skowronski, K., Clark, M., Gallagher, C., Clements, C., & Banerjee, T. (2023). Features of turbulence during wildland fires in forested and grassland environments. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 338, 109501.
• Abdollahi, M., Vahedifard, F., Tracy, F. T. (2023). Stability Analysis of Unsaturated Slopes Stricken by Wildfires. Proc. Geo-Congress 2023: Geotechnics of Natural Hazards, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 338, ASCE, 599-609. DOI: 10.1061/9780784484654.059.
• Vahedifard, F., Abdollahi, M., Leshchinsky, B. A., Stark, T. D., Sadegh, M., & AghaKouchak, A. (2024). Interdependencies between wildfire‐induced alterations in soil properties, near‐surface processes, and geohazards. Earth and Space Science, 11(2), e2023EA003498. (PDF)