Jordan Horrillo

About

Jordan Horrillo is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a political scientist whose research focuses on the political economy of environmental policy, particularly the causes and mitigation of catastrophic wildfires in the American West.

Horrillo uses large-scale geospatial data and quantitative methods to analyze the long-term effects of forest management on fire outcomes. One area of his research investigates the effect of proactive fuel treatments, such as prescribed burns and mechanical thinning, in preventing fire ignitions from escaping containment, particularly during periods of extreme weather. He also examines the historical antecedents of current fire regimes, analyzing over a century of policy in Oregon’s national forests to assess the relative impacts of different management legacies. His work tests claims regarding the role of twentieth-century clearcutting in contributing to modern fire risk.

Collectively, Horrillo’s research provides a quantitative assessment of the tools available to policymakers for mitigating wildfire risk and building landscape resilience, contributing to policy debates on forest management in a changing climate. Dr. Horrillo earned his PhD in political science from Stanford University.