Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation

MR Kreider, PE Higuera, SA Parks, WL Rice… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

JK Balch, V Iglesias, AL Mahood, MC Cook, C Amaral… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The most destructive and deadly wildfires in US history were also fast. Using satellite data,
we analyzed the daily growth rates of more than 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020 across the …

Dataset of United States Incident Management Situation Reports from 2007 to 2021

D Nguyen, EJ Belval, Y Wei, KC Short, DE Calkin - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
This paper presents a unique 15-year dataset of Incident Management Situation Reports
(IMSR), which document daily wildland fire situations across ten geographical regions in the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modernizing the US National Fire Danger Rating System (version 4): Simplified fuel models and improved live and dead fuel moisture calculations

WM Jolly, PH Freeborn, LS Bradshaw, J Wallace… - … Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The US National Fire Danger Rating System (USNFDRS) supports wildfire
management decisions nationwide, but it has not been updated since 1988. Here we …

Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the US

K McConnell, E Fussell, J DeWaard, S Whitaker… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The scale of wildfire impacts to the built environment is growing and will likely continue
under rising average global temperatures. We investigate whether and at what destruction …

[HTML][HTML] A Robust Optimization Model for Emergency Location Considering the Uncertainty and Correlation of Transportation Network Capacity

B Jiang, Y Song - Systems, 2024 - mdpi.com
Emergencies often lead to the impairment of infrastructure systems, including transportation
systems. It is necessary to analyze the uncertainty and correlation of transportation network …

Mapping Wildfire Jurisdictional Complexity Reveals Opportunities for Regional Co-Management

K Jones, J Vukomanovic, B Nowell… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires often burn across boundaries affecting multiple jurisdictions, landowners and
levels of government. Wildfire co-management across jurisdictions is expected to increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Prescribed fires as a climate change adaptation tool

Y Hashida, DJ Lewis, K Cummins - Journal of Environmental Economics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Climate change has been shown to increase wildfire risk, while prescribed burning is a
potential management action that landowners can perform to adapt to such climate-driven …

SeasFire as a Multivariate Earth System Datacube for Wildfire Dynamics

I Karasante, L Alonso, I Prapas, A Ahuja… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The global occurrence, scale, and frequency of wildfires pose significant threats to
ecosystem services and human livelihoods. To effectively quantify and attribute the …