Evacuation decisions in the 2023 Tenerife fire: insights from a comparison with the 2019 Kincade fire

Understanding why people evacuate or remain during wildfires is a key concern in fire safety. We surveyed 747 households affected by the 2023 Tenerife fire (Spain) using the same instrument as in the 2019 Kincade fire study (United States), enabling direct comparison. Results revealed agreement acro...

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Autores: Cuesta Jiménez, Arturo|||0000-0002-6366-3982, Balboa Marras, Adriana, Kuligowski, Erica D., Alvear Portilla, Manuel Daniel|||0000-0002-7105-5282
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:ucreareposit::9f463200908f6e802acc07c50e21402e
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/40351
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Modeling
Human behavior
Wildfires
WUI fires
Human factors
Response patterns
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Sumario:Understanding why people evacuate or remain during wildfires is a key concern in fire safety. We surveyed 747 households affected by the 2023 Tenerife fire (Spain) using the same instrument as in the 2019 Kincade fire study (United States), enabling direct comparison. Results revealed agreement across both fires on the central role of pre-fire safety perceptions and threat assessment in shaping perceived risk, and of evacuation orders, homeownership, and fire cues in driving evacuation decisions, while the influence of demographic and household factors varied by context. This study demonstrates the value of standardized, cross-national analyses in identifying both consistent and context-specific determinants of evacuation, discusses the need for validated measures of constructs such as risk and threat perception, and provides insights for integrating regression-based predictive models into wildfire evacuation simulations.