2022 06 21 City Council
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67 McMinn County is in the Cumberland District of the TN Division of Forestry. The TN Division of Forestry provides statistics for each region summarizing wildfire events. Due to outside data sources including federal and state land, causing confusion in wildfire data, the TN Division of Forestry will always remain the only source for Counties within the State of Tennessee for information. It is not the responsibility of McMinn County to mitigate federal or state land. Hopefully, in the future, a more defined dataset can be provided. At this time, this is the only information McMinn County can obtain that is consistent and confirmed. Bel ow are the statistics for McMinn County from 2007 to 2016. These statistics also provide extent of the Wildfire Hazard. For Area, the total number of acres for the East TN District is 6,245,119.29. The percentage is calculated by taking the percentage and calculating the total area by percentage within the entire district. Size is calc ulated by total number of acres divided by total number of fires. Year # of Fires Forested # of Fires Non‐ Forested Total # of Acres Forested # of Acres Non‐ Forested Total Size Area 2016 19 4 23 624.4 30.8 655.2 28.5 0.002 2015 6 1 7 8.3 0.1 8.4 1.2 0.000 2014 19 1 20 798.0 19.0 817.0 40.9 0.003 2013 6 2 8 81.2 15.4 96.6 12.1 0.000 2012 6 2 8 2,230.8 20.5 2,251.3 281.4 0.008 2011 6 1 7 40.7 10.1 50.8 7.3 0.000 2010 2 1 3 3.6 3.5 7.1 2.4 0.000 2009 6 2 8 139.1 2.0 141.1 17.6 0.001 2008 9 2 11 1,590.5 1.0 1,591.5 144.7 0.006 2007 19 14 33 1,164.8 167.8 1,332.6 40.4 0.005 McMinn County uses a ranking system to determine each jurisdiction’s vulnerability to wildfire events. This system is based off simple arithmetic which analyzes potential impacts to determine vulnerabilities and then analyzes the probability of a wildfire event occurring to calculate a risk ranking for each jurisdiction. Jurisdiction Impacts Vulnerability Human Property Business H+P+B=#; #/3=V McMinn County Unincorporated 2 3 1 2 City of Athens 1 2 1 1.34 City of Etowah 1 2 1 1.34 City of Niota 1 2 1 1.34 Jurisdiction Vulnerability Probability Risk V+P=R McMinn County Unincorporated 2 1 3 148