A JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network
Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Extreme Fire Behavior
This subtopic describes factors that encourage extreme fire behavior. It also includes case studies of fires that exhibited extreme fire behavior.
Upcoming Events
None.
Past Events
Era of Megafires - A Multi-Media Presentation with Dr. Paul Hessburg, Idaho Tour
May 1, 2017 to October 11, 2017
Era of Megafires - A Multi-Media Presentation with Dr. Paul Hessburg, Montana Tour
April 24, 2017 to September 12, 2017
Webinars/Videos
Inside the lab studying the growing threat of fire tornadoes
Sep 21, 2018
Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer
Research Briefs
Management/Planning Documents
Syntheses
Publications/Reports
2020 Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia’s 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A broader perspective
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2020 A broader perspective on the causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019–20 season of mega‐fires: A response to Adams et al.
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2020 Ground wind generated near the base by the massive convective column of very large-scale mass fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2020 Extreme wildfire events and disasters : root causes and new management strategies
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2020 Evolution of a pyrocumulonimbus event associated with an extreme wildfire in Tasmania, Australia
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2020 Fuel treatment effectiveness in the context of landform, vegetation, and large, wind‐driven wildfires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2019 Flow visualization study of stationary fire whirls just downwind of meter-scale turbulent flames
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Quantitative evaluation of the Haines Index’s ability to predict fire growth events
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Fuel mass and stand structure 13 years after logging of a severely burned ponderosa pine forest in northeastern Oregon, U.S.A
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 Effects of fuels management on fire intensity, rate of spread, severity, and resultant forest structure within the 2013 Rim Fire landscape - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
2018 Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2018 The Cooney Ridge Fire Experiment: An Early Operation to Relate Pre-, Active, and Post-Fire Field and Remotely Sensed Measurements
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Interacting effects of fire severity, time since fire and topography on vegetation structure after wildfire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2017 Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2016 Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: a case study of the Las Conchas Fire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2016 Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume 2 for fire behavior specialists, researchers, and meteorologists
Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper
2016 Near-term probabilistic forecast of significant wildfire events for the western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2015 Seasonal reversal of the influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on very large wildfire occurrence in the interior northwestern United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2014 Impacts of mega-fires on large U.S. urban area air quality under changing climate and fuels
Technical Report or White Paper
2014 Modeling very large-fire occurrences over the continental United States from weather and climate forcing
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2014 Crown fire potential in lodgepole pine forests during the red stage of mountain pine beetle attack
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2014 Defining extreme wildland fires using geospatial and ancillary metrics
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2014 Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous western United States
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Modelling conditional burn probability patterns for large wildland fires
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2013 Fire behaviour case study of two early winter grass fires in southern Alberta, 27 November 2011
Technical Report or White Paper
2013 Crown fire behavior characteristics and prediction in conifer forests: a state-of-knowledge synthesis - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper
2013 Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Modeling tree-level fuel connectivity to evaluate the effectiveness of thinning treatments for reducing crown fire potential
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 Numerical simulation of crown fire hazard immediately after bark beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2012 The Waldo Canyon Fire: Fires on the Colorado Front Range and Home Destruction - A Report to the Pike and San Isabel National Forests
Technical Report or White Paper
2011 Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA
Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper
2011 Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2011 Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: Volume 1 for managers
Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper
2011 Linking 3D spatial models of fuels and fire: effects of spatial heterogeneity on fire behavior
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2010 Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2009 Fuel treatments, fire suppression, and their interaction with wildfire and its impact: the Warm Lake experience during the Cascade Complex of wildfires in central Idaho, 2007
Technical Report or White Paper
2009 An analysis of Dodge's escape fire on the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in terms of a survival zone for wildland firefighters
Conference Proceedings
2009 The 1988 fires of Yellowstone and beyond as a wildland fire behavior case study
Technical Report or White Paper
2007 An assessment of fuel treatments on three large 2007 Pacific Northwest fires
Technical Report or White Paper
2007 A fuel treatment reduces fire severity and increases suppression efficiency in a mixed conifer forest
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
2007 Testing the modeled effectiveness of an operational fuel reduction treatment in a small western Montana interface landscape using two spatial scales
Conference Proceedings
2006 Organizational characteristics that contribute to success in engaging the public to accomplish fuels management at the wilderness/non-wilderness interface
Conference Proceedings
2005 Optimizing landscape treatments for reducing wildfire risk and improving ecological sustainability of ponderosa pine forests with mixed severity fire regimes - Part 2 - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Technical Report or White Paper
2003 Fire whirls, fire tornados, and fire storms: physical and numerical modeling
Conference Proceedings
2003 Assessing the value of increased model resolution in forecasting fire danger
Conference Proceedings
1997 Wildfire case study: Butte City Fire, southeastern Idaho, July 1, 1994
Technical Report or White Paper
1993 The evaluation of Idaho wildfire growth using the Haines Index
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1992 Fuel moisture, forest type, and lightning-caused fire in Yellowstone National Park
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1991 The 1985 Butte fire in central Idaho: a Canadian perspective on the associated burning conditions
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1991 Predicting behavior of the 1988 Yellowstone fires: projections versus reality
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1991 The 1985 Butte fire in central Idaho: a Canadian perspective on the associated burning conditions
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1991 Predicting behavior and size of crown fires in the northern Rocky Mountains
Technical Report or White Paper
1988 Help with making crown fire hazard assessments
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1988 Help with making crown fire hazard assessments
Conference Proceedings, Technical Report or White Paper
1985 Behavior of the life-threatening Butte Fire: August 27-29, 1985
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1984 Modeling behavior of prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1984 Wildland fires: predicting the behavior of wildland fires-among nature's most potent forces-can save lives, money, and natural resources
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
1975 Broadcast burning in larch-fir clearcuts: the Miller Creek-Newman Ridge study
Technical Report or White Paper
1932 Meteorological conditions affecting the Freeman Lake (Idaho) Fire
Book or Chapter or Journal Article
Joint Fire Science Program
The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program (FireScience.gov).
