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Color Code Map Scenario (inches above MHHW) 12 24 36 48 There are a number of online tools that provide regionally relevant sea level rise inundation maps. The most commonly used is the NOAA Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. This is a national tool that depicts potential impacts to marshes and human communities from a range of sea level rise projections from zero to six feet coupled with mean higher high water (MHHW). It also illustrates changes in flood frequency and includes visual simulations of flooding at local sites.31 5.7. Fire Fires are typically characterized into three categories: urban fires, wildland-urban interface fires, and wildland fires.  Urban fires occur within a developed area and pose a direct risk to development.  Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires occur where the built environment and natural areas are intermixed (the fringe of urban areas).  Wildland fires exist in wilderness land. Fires in the urban environment and in the wildland-urban interface result in direct damage to the built environment and can injure or kill residents. Wildland fires can cause damage to linear infrastructure systems that serve the Bay Area, causing outages downstream of the failure; can impact the air quality in cities during the duration of the fire; and can impact water quality in watersheds impacted by a wildland fire. Wildland and wildland- urban interface fires can also damage natural environments, such as recreational areas, and can cause lasting impacts to slopes and soils In the Bay Area; fire areas generally fall into two categories – State Responsibility Areas, where CALFIRE is responsible for fire protection, and Local Responsibilities, where local fire departments and fire protection districts have responsibility (figure 13). 31 coast.noaa.gov/slr/