The economics of wildfire in the United States

J Bayham, JK Yoder, PA Champ… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon with substantial economic consequences, and its
management is complex, dynamic, and rife with incentive problems. This article reviews the …

Modelling human-fire interactions: combining alternative perspectives and approaches

AES Ford, SP Harrison, Y Kountouris… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although it has long been recognised that human activities affect fire regimes, the
interactions between humans and fire are complex, imperfectly understood, constantly …

Increasing synchronous fire danger in forests of the western United States

JT Abatzoglou, CS Juang, AP Williams… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread fire activity taxes suppression resources and can compound wildfire hazards.
We examine the geographic synchronicity of fire danger across western United States …

Priorities and effectiveness in wildfire management: evidence from fire spread in the western United States

AJ Plantinga, R Walsh… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Costs of fighting wildfires have increased substantially over the past several decades. Yet
surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of wildfire suppression or how wildfire …

Evidence of increasing wildfire damage with decreasing property price in Southern California fires

E Conlisk, V Butsic, AD Syphard, S Evans… - PLoS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Across the Western United States, human development into the wildland urban interface
(WUI) is contributing to increasing wildfire damage. Given that natural disasters often cause …

Characterising ignition precursors associated with high levels of deployment of wildland fire personnel

AC Cullen, BR Goldgeier, E Belval… - International Journal of …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background As fire seasons in the Western US intensify and lengthen, fire managers have
been grappling with increases in simultaneous, significant incidents that compete for …

Human population growth and accessibility from cities shape rangeland condition in the American West

JM Requena-Mullor, J Brandt, MA Williamson… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drylands cover 40% of the global land surface and more than 3 billion people worldwide 2
are dependent on the ecosystem services (ES) that they provide (Hoover et al 2020) …

Using wildfire as a management strategy to restore resiliency to ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern United States

JD Young, AA Ager, AE Thode - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term outcome from accelerated forest restoration using resource objective wildfire
in combination with fuel management on fire‐excluded landscapes is not well studied. We …

The costs and costs avoided from wildfire fire management—A conceptual framework for a value of information analysis

B Simon, C Crowley, F Franco - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wildfire is an integral part of many ecosystems, and wildland fires also have the potential for
costly impacts to human health and safety, and damage to structures and natural resources …

Comparing geography and severity of managed wildfires in California and the Southwest USA before and after the implementation of the 2009 policy guidance

JM Iniguez, AM Evans, S Dadashi, JD Young… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Managed wildfires, ie, naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefits,
have the potential to reduce fuel loads, minimize the effects of future wildfires, and restore …