On September 28, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane. The intensity and size of this storm created an immense swath of damage across, destroying vast portions of the Virginia Creeper Trail. 446 days later, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, USDA Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, joined other dignitaries to break ground in Damascus, Virginia, for a project to repair trails, bridges, and roads destroyed during the storm.
(Forest Service Video by Preston Keres)
Fire behavior modeling datasets provide the foundation for calculating risk across landscapes. The Rocky Mountain Research Station produces national datasets like this map of burn probability that can be used in the RiskMonitor process.
