Patricia Champ

Patricia Champ is an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colroado. Her wildfire nonmarket research has contributed to understandings about the economic costs of wildfire smoke exposure and the effects of wildfire risk on home sales prices. Her primary wildfire research focus is on the intersection of community wildfire education programs and wildland-urban interface homeowners’ risk mitigating and wildfire preparation behaviors. She is a founding member of the Wildfire Research Team, a collaboration of researchers and practitioners that conducts innovative applied wildfire research to help communities adapt and become resilient to wildfires.