WWU grad student creates map of homes in path of potential wildfires

Jacob Tully spent thousands of hours, many of them late at night with loud music and lots of coffee, figuring out how many people in the lower 48 live where their houses could be destroyed by wildfire.

His research for his master's degree at Western Washington University took a new approach to calculating the extent of WUI - shorthand for "wildland-urban interface" - in those states in 2000 and 2010.