Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large
wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of …

Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North
American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and …

The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–
urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it …

The 2019–20 Australian fire season was heralded as emblematic of the catastrophic harm
wrought by climate change. Similarly extreme wildfire seasons have occurred across the …

Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler
colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest …

Abstract 2020 is the year of wildfire records. California experienced its three largest fires
early in its fire season. The Pantanal, the largest wetland on the planet, burned over 20% of …

Globally, and in the US, wildfires pose increasing risk to people and their homes. Wildfire
management assumes that buildings burn primarily in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) …

Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Fire is an important disturbance in many forest landscapes, but there is heightened concern
regarding recent wildfire activity in western North America. Several regional‐scale studies …