Forest Fire Cost Simulator Prototype

As of the past decade, the occurrence of forest fires increases every year. In 2017, $2,410,165,000 was spent on fire suppression in forested areas, which is the highest amount that the US spent in the last thirty-two years. There are many ways to help prevent the flames from causing serious damage from more fire watches and fire departments in areas that are deprived of those amenities, but these things are not free. Funds must be spent to build the new infrastructure and hire people to put out these fires. So, the question is, would it be cost effective to build new facilities for fire prevention, or to leave the current fire prevention system as is for a specific area? To help find a solution, we can make a simulation of potential fires in forested areas, simulate the arrival of the fire department, and calculate the cost of the overall damage after the fire is cleared. Depending on the area, we can find out if putting new facilities would be beneficial to the area, we can save millions of taxpayers dollars and protect the wildlife.

Here is the prototype of the simulation.