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Background: The decision making process undertaken during wildfire responses is complex and prone to uncertainty. In the US, decisions federal land managers make are influenced by numerous and often competing factors. Aims: To assess and validate…
Author(s): Stephen D. Fillmore, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Rachel Bean, Alexander M. Evans, Jose M. Iniguez, Andrea E. Thode, Alistair M. S. Smith, Matthew P. Thompson
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Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical…
Author(s): Amy East, Amir AghaKouchak, Graziella Caprarelli, Gabriel Filippelli, Fabio Florindo, Charles H. Luce, Harihar Rajaram, Lynn M. Russell, Cristina Santin, Isaac Santos
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Runoff-generated debris flows are a potentially destructive and deadly response to wildfire until sufficient vegetation and soil-hydraulic recovery have reduced susceptibility to the hazard. Elevated debris-flow susceptibility may persist for…
Author(s): Andrew Graber, Matthew A. Thomas, Jason W. Kean
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The severe effects of extreme wildfire events in recent years have shown that the fire suppression approach is not enough to solve the problem. An alternative to dealing with this issue is to accept the impossibility of eliminating wildfire hazards…
Author(s): Erica Arango, Maria Nogal, Ming Yang, Hélder S. Sousa, Mark G. Stewart, Jose C. Matos
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Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Author(s): Hamish G. Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Michael A. Storey, Mark K. J. Ooi, Katharine Haynes, Ross A. Bradstock, Owen F. Price, Trent D. Penman
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The increase of wildfire disasters globally has highlighted the need to understand and mitigate human vulnerability to wildfire. In response, there has been a substantial uptick in efforts to characterize and quantify wildfire vulnerability. Such…
Author(s): Nicole Lambrou, Crystal A. Kolden, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Erica Anjum, Charisma Acey
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The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests. To estimate…
Author(s): Jamie L. Peeler, Lisa McCauley, Kerry L. Metlen, Travis J. Woolley, Kimberly Davis, Marcos D. Robles, Ryan D. Haugo, Karen L. Riley, Philip E. Higuera, Joseph E Fargione, Rob Addington, Steven Bassett, Kori Blankenship, Michael Case, Teresa B. Chapman, Edward Smith, Randy Swaty, Nathan Welch
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The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management. Outlooks of potential fire activity at lead-times of several weeks can help in wildland…
Author(s): John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Nicholas J. Nauslar, Katherine C. Hegewisch, Justin L. Huntington
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the transition towards a new paradigm of wildfire risk management in Victoria that incorporates Aboriginal fire knowledge. We show the suitability of cultural burning in the transformed landscapes…
Author(s): Amos Atkinson, Cristina Montiel-Molina
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Many tools that identify wildfire risks and hazards across the landscape assume that all houses and properties within a community have the same level of risk. However, there are often substantial differences across properties, such as building…
Author(s): Andrea Watts, Patricia A. Champ, James R. Meldrum, Schelly Olson, James (Brad) White
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Structure loss is an acute, costly impact of the wildfire crisis in the western conterminous United States (“West”), motivating the need to understand recent trends and causes. We document a 246% rise in West-wide structure loss from wildfires…
Author(s): Philip E. Higuera, Maxwell C. Cook, Jennifer Balch, E. Natasha Stavros, Adam L. Mahood, Lise A. St. Denis
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Firebrands generated from wildfires can contribute to wildfire spread and are a threat to structures in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Understanding the characteristics such as the firebrand size, mass and heat flux to the recipient fuel are…
Author(s): Sampath Adusumilli, David L. Blunck
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One of the worst environmental catastrophes that endanger the Australian community is wildfire. To lessen potential fire threats, it is helpful to recognize fire occurrence patterns and identify fire susceptibility in wildfire-prone regions. The use…
Author(s): Abolfazl Abdollahi, Biswajeet Pradhan
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Numerous wildfire management agencies and institutions rely primarily on simple risk approaches to wildfire that focus on technical risk assessments that do not reflect the complexity of contemporary wildfire risk. This review paper argues that such…
Author(s): Maureen Essen, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Jesse Abrams, Travis B. Paveglio
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Wildfires spread along trajectories set by a coincident wind direction. Despite the highly directional nature of wildfire threats to public safety, landscape fire risk assessments are typically omnidirectional. We used a simple metric of landscape…
Author(s): Jennifer L. Beverly, Air M. Forbes
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to…
Author(s): The Aspen Institute, The Nature Conservancy
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All wildfires in the United States are managed, but the strategies used to manage them vary by region and season. “Managed wildfire” is a response strategy to naturally ignited wildfires; it does not prioritize full suppression and allows the fire…
Author(s): Rachel Bean, Alexander M. Evans
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Understanding the role of land use type and topographic features in shaping wildfire regimes received much attention because of the intensification of wildfire activities. The intensifying wildfires in the western United States are a great concern…
Author(s): Jun Zhai, Zhuo Ning, Ram Dahal, Shaoyang Yang
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Increasing wildfire activity, decreasing workforce capacity, and growing systemic strain may result in an interagency wildfire-response system less capable of protecting landscapes and communities. Further, increased workloads will likely increase…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, David E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, David Flores
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Anticipating consequences of disturbance interactions on ecosystem structure and function is a critical management priority as disturbance activity increases with warming climate. Across the Northern Hemisphere, extensive tree mortality from recent…
Author(s): Jenna E. Morris, Michele S. Buonanduci, Michelle Agne, Michael A. Battaglia, Daniel C. Donato, Brian J. Harvey
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