Abstract: This paper presents a rigorous approach to statistical modeling of postearthquake fire ignitions and to data collection for such modeling and applies it to late 20th century California. Generalized linear and generalized ...

Abstract: The process of restoring water supply after service is interrupted is critical for determining the durations and spatial distribution of outages and thus the impacts that households, businesses, and others ultimately ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a quantitative methodology to model the way the hurricane wind vulnerability of a region’s building inventory changes over time due, for example, to aging, structural upgrading efforts, construction ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a quantitative methodology to model the way that the number, locations, and types of buildings in a region change over time, specifically in order to understand how those changes affect hurricane risk. ...

Abstract: Current regional hurricane loss estimation models use the present-day vulnerability of the building inventory in predicting future losses and assume that it remains static throughout the time horizon of interest. In reality, ...

Abstract: This paper describes the Hurricane Disaster Risk Index (HDRI), a composite index developed to compare the risk of hurricane disaster in U.S. coastal counties. Analogous to a quality of life index, the HDRI was developed ...

Abstract: Wind fragility curves for roof sheathing were developed for single-family building models to investigate the effects of roof shape and roof pitch on the wind performance of roof sheathing. For gable roofs, it was found ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a constrained linear optimization model to help guide expenditure of government funds for regional hurricane risk management and to provide insight into some of the complexities involved in designing ...

Abstract: This paper introduces the multihazard optimization-based probabilistic scenario (multihazard OPS) method to create an ensemble of multihazard scenarios that can be used for efficient evaluation of spatially distributed ...

Abstract: When critical infrastructure system services are disrupted, households typically respond by reducing, delaying, or relocating their demand (e.g., delaying laundry), or augmenting supply (e.g., using a generator). ...