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Wildfires, and the sediment-rich floods that commonly follow, increasingly threaten riverine ecosystems and water infrastructure. Suspended sediment exported throughout fire–flood sequences poses particular risks due to rapid transit times and…
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Wildland fuel characterization is foundational to fire behavior, consumption, and smoke modeling with cascading impacts to post-fire vegetation dynamics, carbon, smoke production, and air quality. All fire behavior and effects models require inputs…
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Forest fires are increasingly destructive, contributing to significant ecological damage, carbon emissions, and economic losses. Monitoring these fires promptly and accurately, particularly by delineating fire perimeters, is critical for mitigating…
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Lightning is responsible for the most area annually burned by wildfires in the extratropical region of the Northern Hemisphere. Hence, predicting the occurrence of wildfires requires reliable forecasting of the chance of cloud-to-ground lightning…
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Climate change intensifies fire smoke, emitting hazardous air pollutants that impact human health. However, the global influence of climate change on fire-induced health impacts remains unquantified. Here we used three well-tested fire–vegetation…
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Wildfires pose significant environmental and societal threats, necessitating improved early detection methods. This study investigates the effectiveness of integrating real-time object detection deep learning models (YOLOv8 and RT-DETR) with…
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There is a need to convert fire danger indices into operational estimates of fire activity to support strategic fire management, particularly under climate change. Few studies have evaluated multiple accumulation times for indices that combine both…
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Satellite data are effective for mapping wildfires, particularly in remote locations where monitoring is rare. Geolocated fire detections can be used for enhanced fire management and fire modelling through daily fire progression mapping. Here we…
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This study utilizes Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) data sourced by the OpenSky Network to curate a dataset aimed at enhancing the precision of aerial suppressant drop predictions in wildland firefighting. By amalgamating ADS-B…
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Prioritizing investments in restoration, risk reduction, and conservation programs is an important part of the planning process to develop strategies for a wide range of resource management issues in the US and elsewhere (Ball et al., 2009; Noss et…
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Wildfires cause severe consequences, including property loss, threats to human life, damage to natural resources, biodiversity, and economic impacts. Consequently, numerous wildland fire detection systems were developed over the years to identify…
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The significant threat of wildfires to forest ecology and biodiversity, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, underscores the necessity for advanced predictive models amidst shifting climate patterns. There is a need to evaluate and…
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This study carries out a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of scientific production on wildfires, soil erosion and land degradation, with the aim of understanding trends, critical gaps in scientific knowledge and research patterns. A total of 1400…
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Shrub volume is used to calculate numerous, essential ecological indicators in rangeland ecosystems such as biomass, fuel loading, wildlife habitat, site productivity, and ecosystem structure. Field techniques for biomass estimation, including…
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Acquiring detailed 3D fuel data for advanced fire models remains challenging, particularly at large scales. To address this need, we present FastFuels, a novel platform designed to generate detailed 3D fuel data and accelerate the use of advanced…
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Invasive forest pathogens, like Cronartium ribicola (Fisch), the fungus that causes white pine blister rust, threaten native tree species. Federally listed whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelmann) is highly susceptible and faces extensive…
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with RGB, multispectral, or thermal cameras have demonstrated their potential to provide high-resolution data before, during, and after wildfires and prescribed burns. Pre-burn point clouds generated through…
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Historical and contemporary policies and practices, including the suppression of lightning-ignited fires and the removal of intentional fires ignited by Indigenous peoples, have resulted in over a century of fire exclusion across many of the USA’s…
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Prescribed burns are used to maintain wildland ecosystems and decrease fuel loads and associated wildfire hazard. Prescribed burns may produce enough smoke to cause adverse health outcomes. The aim of this review is to understand what communication…
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This Fire Regime Synthesis details characteristics of presettlement (i.e., before Euro-American settlement), historical (i.e., any past record), and contemporary (i.e., 1980s to present) fuels and fire regimes in ponderosa pine and montane mixed-…
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