Relationship between Climate Variability, Wildfire Risk, and Wildfire Occurrence in Wildland-Urban Interface of the Southwestern United States

Seung Hee Kim1, Menas Kafatos1, Jia Shenyue2 and Son V Nghiem3, (1)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Orange, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States