Table 1.
Occupational proxies used to establish the relative fatality risk associated with private citizen use of different management techniques, based on data compiled for different occupations from the Census Database.
Table 2.
Comparison of causal factors associated with fire and the post-fire environment accounting for fatality rates in prescribed fires and wildfires from 1963–2014.
Table 3.
Machine-related and non-mechanical causes of wildland fire-related fatalities based on our classification scheme used to summarize the Wildland Fire Accidents Database.
Fig 1.
Relative risk of different management techniques used by private land managers, based on occupational fatality rates as proxies.
The fatality rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. Mean fatality rates and 95% confidence intervals for each occupational proxy for years 2006–2013.
Fig 2.
Number of fatal injuries related to wildfire and prescribed fire from 1963–2013.
Fig 3.
Number of fatal injuries in wildland fire from 1922–2013.
(A) Fatal injuries are separated into 4 categories: those directly resulting from fire, those resulting from the use of vehicles and transportation, medical related, and environmental related. Trend in number of fatal injuries over time for each category is represented by locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) of the number of fatal injuries in each category over time.